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Prof. Dr. Chikodili Collins Ajibo

University of Nigeria
Law

External Senior Fellow
October 2024 – April 2025

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Last Update: 22.10.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Chikodili Collins Ajibo obtained his LL. B at the University of Nigeria (Second Class Honours Upper Division) in 2006, followed by the B.L at the Nigerian Law School in 2007. In 2010, he obtained an LL. M in International Business and Commercial Law (Distinction) from the University of Manchester. Four years later, he completed his PhD on International Business and Commercial Law in Manchester. Since 2016, he is part of the Faculty of Law at the University of Nigeria and has taught courses on the undergraduate and postgraduate level. From 2019 to 2021, he was the Head of Department of Property Law. He worked at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Esene & Co, and at his own Law Practice between 2007 and 2016. He is also involved in various research activities: He is the Head of the International Economic Law Research Group, comprising 2 researchers from the University of Nigeria and two from Universities in the United Kingdom, as well as the Co-Head of the Corporate Law Research Group at the University of Nigeria. His studies have earned him various awards and and honours: He received the Alexander von Humboldt Return Fellowship Grant in 2024, as well as the Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in 2022, which was further extended into 2024. Ajibo was a co-lead investigator (in a 4-persons team of the Corporate Law Research Group) in the ₦12 million Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and received a Research Award in November 2019 for a project entitled: “Appraisal of the Impacts of Securities Regulation on Capital Market Development in Nigeria – 1999-2019”. Prior to his stay at FRIAS, he has been an external scholar to the School of Law at the University of South Africa, the University of Cape Town and the University of Western Cape. He was also a visiting scholar at the Institute of African Legal Studies at the University of Bayreuth.

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