Engobo Emeseh

Biography

Professor Emeseh has extensive experience in higher education both within and outside the UK. Professor Emeseh has led the development of innovative market relevant degree schemes, portfolio reviews, and diversification of delivery formats to cater to a wide audience, maximise resources, and improve the student learning experience, including external engagement and skills development. Engobo obtained her PhD from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee.  She graduated with a first class from the Nigeria Law School and Distinction from the University of Wales Cardiff. She is a former British Council Chevening Scholar, and a Ford Foundation (IFP) doctoral fellow. Prior to her academic career, she practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Nigeria, having been called to the Nigerian Bar.

Professor Emeseh has demonstrable leadership in continuous professional development, including invitations as keynote and guest speaker at various teaching and learning in law workshops, seminars or panels, as exemplified below.

- Panel Speaker: ‘Education for Sustainable Development Imperative and Challenges for Higher Education Institutions’, WTUN Congress, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, October 2024.

- Guest Speaker: ‘Transforming Legal Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Nigeria’s Future Lawyers’, Nigeria Bar Association Annual Conference, Lagos, Nigeria, August 2024.

- Keynote Speaker: ‘Mainstreaming Sustainability in the Law curriculum’, International Workshop Transformative Approaches to Pedagogy and Research in Law, National Law University Prayagraj, India, July 2024.

- Panel Speaker, ‘Higher Education Systems – Teaching and Scholarship’, University of Leeds, Africa Week Conference, May 2024.

- Conference paper- Engobo Emeseh, Ilias Kapsis & Pedi Obani, ‘Mainstreaming Sustainability in Legal Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach at the University of Bradford School of Law’, Conference on Teaching and Learning in Law – Directions in Legal Education 2022, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 2022.

Research

Professor Emeseh’s research is broadly in the area of environmental law and policy, with particular interests in regulation and enforcement, environmental justice, corporate social responsibility, and the interface between environmental regulation and international economic law. She has published widely and presented papers at academic conferences and other international fora, usually within the context of the natural resources industry in Africa. She has been invited as an expert or appointed as a consultant on these issues by distinguished organisations such as the UNDP, the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, the African Legal Support Facility and the UN Economic Commission for Africa Institute for Economic Development and Planning. Professor Emeseh has demonstrated sustained interest in knowledge transfer and wider engagement, and has led the establishment of several initiatives to create spaces for discourse, networking, and capacity building both within and outside academia.

Engobo has supervised a number of PhD students to completion, with some examples listed below.

			Actions
28/08/2024	Edemadide, E. Believe	Enforcing The Corporate Responsibility To Protect Human Rights In The Nigerian Oil And Gas Industry: Implementation Options under the UNGP on Business and Human Rights Framework
28/05/2024	Chen, Xingyu	A legal framework for the future trade and investment relationships of China with the EU and UK
20/11/2023	Osaro, Ebiemere	Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Rights Protection in Nigeria. Towards a Balance in the Regulatory Framework in the Oil and Gas Industry
19/10/2021	Sarwar, Fiez, I.	How Can International Institutions Be Improved to Ensure Accountability and Justice for Violations That Occur in Humanitarian and Counter-Terrorism Operations?
10/06/2024	Dickson, Moses	The scope for strengthening the procedural rights of third party groups in ISDS
01/05/2025	Ige, Temitope	Right to Health for Pandemic Response under the Jurisprudence of the Council of Europe

Teaching

Engobo teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with particular interests in Environmental law and Policy, Criminal Justice, and Human Rights.  She has supervised and examined PhD research theses, especially in the fields of Environmental Law Policy, Climate Change, and Natural Resources Management; and welcomes research proposals in these and related areas.

Engobo intrdocued and developed a number of Postgraduate Taught modules (for both on capus and Distance Learning) and have been Module Leader on a number of them, including e.g.,

• Climate Change Law and Policy 

• International Petroleum Law

• Business, Environment and Human Rights 

• International Trade and Investment Law 

• Crime and Society

Publications