Dr. Oluwatoyin Adejonwo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, an honorary Senior Lecturer in Law at the Dundee Law School, University of Dundee, UK, a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and the founding Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainable Development (3CSD). She holds a PhD in International Environmental Law from the Dundee Law School. She is the Co-Editor of the book titled ‘Climate Change Justice and Human Rights: An African Perspective’ published by Pretoria University Law Press (PULP). The book interrogates the human rights paradigm as an intervention to secure climate change justice for vulnerable populations in Africa.
Oluwatoyin has taught Environmental law at several universities including the Abertay University, Dundee UK. She recently visited the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, South Africa as a guest lecturer for the Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa Programme, and the Faculty of Law, and Stellenbosch University, South Africa as a visiting scholar and a guest lecturer in the postgraduate course on sustainable development law and policy. She has presented at various national and international academic conferences. The most recent was at the Harvard Law School’s Climate Justice Series 2024, where she presented a paper titled ‘Climate Change as an Amplifier of Social Disparities – The Role of Adaptation, Mitigation, and Loss and Damage Fund in Africa.’
Oluwatoyin is currently the Co-Chair of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), a multidisciplinary, bi-lingual (EN+FR) network of researchers and policy makers working on displacement and migration in the context of disasters and climate change in Africa. She supervises PhD candidates and has graduated a PhD student, she has examined PhD thesis for PhD candidates at the University of Pretoria, and the University of Cape Town, both in South Africa.
We look forward to working together!
Dr. Oluwatoyin Adejonwo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, an honorary Senior Lecturer in Law at the Dundee Law School, University of Dundee, UK, a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and the founding Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainable Development (3CSD). She holds a PhD in International Environmental Law from the Dundee Law School. She is the Co-Editor of the book titled ‘Climate Change Justice and Human Rights: An African Perspective’ published by Pretoria University Law Press (PULP). The book interrogates the human rights paradigm as an intervention to secure climate change justice for vulnerable populations in Africa.
Oluwatoyin has taught Environmental law at several universities including the Abertay University, Dundee UK. She recently visited the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, South Africa as a guest lecturer for the Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa Programme, and the Faculty of Law, and Stellenbosch University, South Africa as a visiting scholar and a guest lecturer in the postgraduate course on sustainable development law and policy. She has presented at various national and international academic conferences. The most recent was at the Harvard Law School’s Climate Justice Series 2024, where she presented a paper titled ‘Climate Change as an Amplifier of Social Disparities – The Role of Adaptation, Mitigation, and Loss and Damage Fund in Africa.’
Oluwatoyin is currently the Co-Chair of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), a multidisciplinary, bi-lingual (EN+FR) network of researchers and policy makers working on displacement and migration in the context of disasters and climate change in Africa. She supervises PhD candidates and has graduated a PhD student, she has examined PhD thesis for PhD candidates at the University of Pretoria, and the University of Cape Town, both in South Africa.
We look forward to working together!