Our Board Members

PROFESSOR DESIREE AMEZE GUOBADIA FNIALS

Professor Guobadia had her secondary and Higher Secondary School education at Queens College, Lagos. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree(LL.B) from the University of Lagos and a Master of Law Degree(LL.M) from the University of London. She was appointed a full Professor by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in 1997 and was the Institute’s Director of Studies from 1997 to 2003. She served as Director-General of the Institute from 2003 to 2009 after which she has remained a research Professor in the Institute. A Council member of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association. In March 2011, she was appointed Chair of the Presidential Visitation Panel at the University of Abuja in 2014.
Professor Guobadia has published widely within and outside Nigeria. She is a member of several learned societies including the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law; the International Association of Constitutional Law and the African Network on Constitutional Law. From 2007 to 2012, she was a member of the International Board of Directors of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, and was honored with the Society’s Medal in 2008. Since February 2018, she has been a member of the Governing Council of the Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA).

PROFESSOR ADEDEJI ADEKUNLE SAN

Adedeji served the Federal Government in various capacities as Delegate to various Special/ Expert Working Groups/ Committees &Commissions and Senior Special Assistant to the Hon. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice advising on various aspects of law and policy. He has served as secretary of the law Revision Committee and has also consulted for several International Organisations, Including the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He occupied the Akinola Aguda Distinguished Chair as Professor of law in the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS)and was Director General of NIALS from May 2014 and until 2019 when his term ended. He is currently in charge of Projects at the Juritrust Centre for Socio Legal Research and Documentation.

Olugbemi is a Senior Attorney in the Benitez Law Firm, a full service law office based in White Plains, New York. He was enrolled as a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1985, admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division First Department in 2000 and to the United States District Court, Southern District of New York in 2004. His law practice experience includes defending clients in the United States Federal Courts in Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. He also has an extensive litigation practice in the courts of the State of New York. He consults for and defends clients in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Criminal Division and engages in appellate practice in criminal juvenile matters. Mr. Jaiyebo brings his decade long experience of teaching and research at the Obafemi Awolowo University, the University of Lagos and Columbia University in the City of New York to bear on his brief writing and courtroom advocacy.

Tobi holds a degree in Fine Arts from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. As part of his course work, Tobi offered courses in graphic production and printing. He had his youth service experience between 2013 and 2014, as a youth corps member. He presently works as a print production artist, and render services to organizations as Juritrust Centre for Socio-Legal Research and Documentation (Project Monitoring and Administration), British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC), Law Firm of Okey Obi Dike, Federal Capital Territory Administration, etc . He has garnered skills in management, administration, project design and development, supervision, training and monitoring as well as first hand practical knowledge and rudiments in print production and design management.