Olufemi Amao

Law Lecturer

Qualifications

PhD (Cork)
PG Cert (Cork)
LLM (Warwick)
LLM (Nigeria)
LLB (Nigeria)
BA (Nigeria)

Dr Olufemi Amao is a graduate of University College Cork, Ireland (PhD, 2009); PG Cert (2009); University of Warwick, UK (LLM, 2005); University of Ibadan, Nigeria (LLM, 2003); Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria (LLB, 1997); University of Ilorin, Nigeria (BA, 1991). He was called to the Nigeria Bar in 1999. He was a Lecturer in Law at the University College Cork, Ireland. He previously worked as a barrister in Nigeria.  He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences in his area of expertise.

I am the Mooting Tutor for the School. The School has a vibrant student-led Law Society and my role is to work with them to ensure that mooting and debating events are as effective as possible. 

Teaching

Banking Law
International Commercial Law

Research Interests

International Commercial Law
Company Law
Corporate Law Theory
Corporate Governance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Multinational Corporations
Human Rights
International Law
Banking Law

Research Areas

Banking and finance
Company law and corporate governance
Human rights
International trade law
Legal theory and jurisprudence

Research Groups

CLRC Commercial Law Research Centre
HRC Human Rights Centre

PhD Supervision

International Commercial Law
Company Law
Corporate Law Theory
Corporate Governance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Multinational Corporations
Human Rights
International Law
Banking Law

External Activities

Consultancy Centre for Law, The Open University, UK (2009-2010)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Adegbite, E., Amaeshi, K. and Amao, O., The Politics of Shareholder Activism in Nigeria, Journal of Business Ethics 105 (3) : 389- 402

(2011) AMAO, O., Judicial Discretion and Doing between the Banks and their Customers: A Critical Analysis of the Supreme Court Decision in Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National Plc and Others., Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 5

(2011) Adegbite, E., Amaeshi, K. and Amao, O., The Politics of Shareholder Activism in Nigeria, Journal of Business Ethics 1- 14

(2010) AMAO, O., The Foundation for a Global Company Law for Multinational Corporations, International Company and Commercial Law Review 21 (8) : 275- 288

(2010) Amao, O., Corporate Citizenship in Africa: Lessons from the Past, Paths to the Future, Canadian Journal of Development Studies (Revue Canadienne d’études du Développement) 30 (1-2) : 325- 327

(2009) Amaeshi, K. and Amao, OO., Corporate social responsibility in transnational spaces: exploring influences of varieties of capitalism on expressions of corporate codes of conduct in Nigeria, Journal of Business Ethics 86 (Supplement 2) : 225- 239

(2009) Amao, O., Trade sanctions, human rights and multinational corporations: the EU-ACP context, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 32 (2) : 379- 422

(2008) Amao, O. and Amaeshi, K., Galvanising shareholder activism: a prerequisite for effective corporate governance and accountability in Nigeria, Journal of Business Ethics 82 (1) : 119- 130

(2008) Amao, O., Corporate social responsibilty, social contact, corporate personhood and human rights law: understanding the emerging responsibilities of modern corporations, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 33 100- 133

(2008) Amao, OO., Corporate social responsibility, multinational corporations and the law in Nigeria: controlling multinationals in host states, Journal of African Law 52 (1) : 89- 113 Download publication

(2008) Amao, O., The African regional human rights system and multinational corporations: strengthening host state responsibility for the control of multinational corporations, International Journal of Human Rights 12 (5) : 761- 788

(2008) Amao, O., Mandating corporate social responsibility: emerging trends in Nigeria, Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 6 (1) : 75- 95

(2007) Amao, O., Reconstructing the role of the corporation: multinational corporations as public actors in Nigeria, Dublin University Law journal 29 312- 340

(2007) Amao, O., Controlling corporate cowboys: extraterritorial applicaion of home countries jurisdiction to EU corporations abroad, University College Dublin Law Review 67- 79

(2007) Amao, OO., Book review: Multinationals and corporate social responsibility: limitations and opportunities in international law by Jennifer A Zerk, Journal of International Economic Law 10 (1) : 161- 164

(2006) Amaeshi, KM., Adi, BC., Ogbechie, C. and Amao, OO., Corporate social responsibility in Nigeria: western mimicry or indigenous influences?, Journal of Corporate Citizenship 24 83- 99

Conference Papers

(2007) Amao, O., Reflexive law and corporate social responsibility (CSR): a strategic alliance for development?, International Academy of African Business 7th Annual Conference, Building New Strategic Partnership for Africa’s Economic Development (8) : 421- 426

(2006) Amao, O., Corporate codes of conduct: workers' welfare and multinational corporations in Nigeria, International Academy of African Business 7th Annual Conference, African Development: What Role for Business? (7) : 399- 406

Book Chapters

(2012) AMAO, O., Civil and Political Rights in the African Charter. In: The African Regional Human Rights System: 30 Years after the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Leiden, The Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff 29- 53

(2011) AMAO, O., Human Rights and Ethics in the International Business Context – A Nigerian Perspective. In: Voiculescu, A. and Yanacopulos, H. eds. The Business of Human Rights. 188- 213

(2010) AMAO, O., The African Regional Human Rights System. In: Baderin, MA. and Ssenyonjo, M. eds. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. Ashgate Pub Co 235- 251

Books

(2010) Amao, O., Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law: Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries. Routledge