Professor Onyeka Osuji
Email
o.k.osuji@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 872710
Location
5S.6.1, Colchester Campus
Academic support hours
Monday 1-2
Biography
Onyeka K. Osuji is Dean and Professor of Law at Essex Law School, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Social Responsibility Journal. While he has made significant contributions to legal scholarship, the interdisciplinary nature of the subjects of Professor Osuji's research and publications shows a wider range of scholarly contributions. He has presented papers in several international conferences and has published extensively in books and reputable international journals in the areas of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, globalization, regulation, consumer protection, social and non-financial reporting, banking and asset management and multinational enterprises. He is a member of the College of Advisors of the Global Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending (GPSSL) and the Sustainable Finance, the Law and Stakeholders Network. His AHRC-funded “A Technological Licensing Framework for 3D Printed Content: A Focus on China” was cited by Baroness Neville-Rolfe, then Minister for Intellectual Property (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/uk-china-intellectual-property-symposium-2015; http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/news/2015/major-funding-boost-for-research-into-the-development-of-new-business-models-for-ip-related-industries-in-china.aspx. He is leading the application of contract law to 3D printed watermarks, training sessions on contract and development of the best practice code in an ongoing multidisciplinary research project on “Licensing System for 3D Printing in China – Impact Follow on” being funded by the AHRC. Professor Osuji obtained a PhD in law from the University of Manchester (as a School of Law Scholar) and a BCL (Law) from the University of Oxford (as a Shell Centenary/FCO Chevening Scholar). He has an LLB from the University of Nigeria where he graduated as the Best Student of the Faculty of Law. He also has a barrister-at-law licentiate degree from the Nigerian Law School and was awarded the Best Overall Performance (Second Prize) and two prizes in Legal Drafting and Conveyancing. Professor Osuji previously practised in corporate and commercial law before becoming an academic. He is qualified as a barrister and solicitor of Nigeria and a (non-practising) solicitor of England and Wales and has advised individuals, corporations, and national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has acted as an external assessor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and has undertaken training programmes for judicial officers, legal practitioners and business organisations in different jurisdictions. Professor Osuji was once a visiting professor at Université Grenoble Alpes, France and has taught subjects such as Company Law, Corporate Social Responsibility and Law, Corporate Social Responsibility: Globalization, Law and Regulation, Law of Contract and Commercial Law in different institutions. His current teaching responsibilities include corporate responsibility and business law, commercial conflict of laws, consumer contract law and commercial contract law. Professor Osuji is willing to supervise research students and has a number of past and present PhD students in different areas of business and commercial law.
Qualifications
PhD (Law) - The University of Manchester
BCL (Law) - University of Oxford
LLB - University of Nigeria
Barrister-at-Law licentiate degree Nigerian Law School,
Barrister and Solicitor - Nigeria
Solicitor (non-practising) - England and Wales
FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy) Higher Education Academy,
FAcSS (Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences) Academy of Social Sciences,
Appointments
University of Essex
Reader in Law, School of Law, University of Essex (1/8/2017 - 30/9/2020)
Professor of Law, Law, University of Essex (1/12/2020 - 3/7/2022)
Dean, Essex Law School, University of Essex (4/7/2022 - present)
Member of Council and Trustee of the University of Essex, University of Essex (22/9/2023 - present)
Other academic
Visiting Professor, Coal City University (1/5/2020 - present)
Visiting Professor, Law, Université Grenoble Alpes (2/2/2020 - 2/3/2020)
College of Advisors, Sustainable Finance, the Law and Stakeholders (1/9/2018 - present)
