Prof. Chidi Oguamanam, is the Managing Editor, Nigeria Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (NJELP) Environmental Law Research Institute’s journal.
Prof. Oguamanam is an Associate Professor of Law. He started his career with the law Firm of Chris Ogunbanjo & Co., (SAN) from where he rose to Acting Head, Intellectual property Unit before he moved to Canada in 1999.
He is presently The Director, Law and Technology Institute, Dalhousie Law School and Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Law School, Canada.
His area of specialization include international law, indigenous law, intellectual property, plant diversity and traditional medicine, Genetic Contamination and Intellectual property rights, patents and traditional medicine and dialectics of knowledge transformation. He edited and co-edited several books amongst which is International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, plant biodiversity and traditional medicine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). He has published topical and contemporary articles in learned journals in USA, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Canada.
Prof, Oguamanam is a member of Nigerian Bar Association, Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society, Canada Association of Law Teachers and fellow Canada Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethics of Health Research & Policy. |
