Posts by Titilayo Adebola

Contemporary concerns in commercial law include the effects of new/emerging technologies, impacts of climate change and rise of economic nationalism. Each of these areas of concern present unique opportunities and challenges for commercial law. For example, while new/emerging technologies offer significant efficiencies, they raise questions such as how intellectual property…

Roundtable on Nigeria’s Creative Industries Development Bill 2023 (CIDB)

Nigeria’s Creative Industries Development Bill 2023 (CIDB) is designed to bridge the gap between the Nigerian Creative industries and the Federal Government of Nigeria.  If passed into law, the CIDB will become the Creative Industries Development Act (CIDA). CIDA aims…

The theme for this year’s World Food Day is “Leave No One Behind.” The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) notes that although we have made progress towards building a better world, too many people have been left behind. Paradoxically, while enough food is produced to feed…

Lake Chad is the fourth largest lake in Africa (by area). The significant shrinking of the Lake over the past decades has precipitated conflicts and crises in the Lake Chad Basin region. In this in-depth interview, Dr Titilayo Adebola, Associate Director, Centre for Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen, discusses historical…

For International Women’s Day 2022, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee is pleased to celebrate the brilliant achievements of Fahira Brodlija. Fahira is a renowned international commercial and investment arbitration expert. She is the Director of Research for Arbitrator Intelligence, and its ambassador for the Central and Eastern European region. She is…

On 25 March 2021, the University of Aberdeen became the first museum in the United Kingdom (UK) to announce its commitment to repatriate a Benin bronze depicting the head of an Oba of Benin. On 28 October 2021, the University of Aberdeen fulfilled its commitment through a solemn handover ceremony…

Following the University of Cambridge and University of Aberdeen’s recent return of bronzes looted by British soldiers from Benin City, Southern Nigeria, in 1897, Dr. Titilayo Adebola is pleased to present this fireside chat with Professor Bankole Soidipo. The University of Cambridge relinquished possession of a bronze cockerel “Okukor” after…

In commemoration of this year’s black history month, I have been invited to write this blogpost and I am pleased to do so.  I am a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and an Energy Law Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. The focus of this…

Dr Titilayo Adebola presents the eight contribution to the  Centre for Commercial Law (CCL)’s blog series on “Seeing Commercial Law from Different Perspectives.” This series was launched to celebrate the University of Aberdeen’s 525 anniversary and to showcase CCL members thought-provoking standpoints on researching, teaching, or practising commercial law. Titilayo joined the University…

On 29 January 2021, thirteen years after four Nigerian farmers and fisherfolks, Chief Fidelis Oguru, Mr Alali Efanga, Chief Barizaa Dooh and Elder Friday Alfred Akpan, instituted lawsuits in the Netherlands with the support of Milleudefensie, the Hague Court of Appeal found Royal Dutch Shell’s (Shell) subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development…