LL.B, BL, LL.M, Ph.D, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- eddy.wifa3@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272458
- Office Address
Room C29, School of Law
Taylor Building, Aberdeen AB24 3UB
Scotland UK
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Dr. Wifa graduated from Rivers State University with a Second-Class Upper Degree and was subsequently called to the Nigerian Bar in 2012. He then proceeded to the University of Aberdeen where he completed both a Masters in Oil and Gas law (Distinction) and a PhD in “Offshore Marine Renewable Energy Risk Governance”. He was a Senior Partner at AccendoJuris, a Nigerian based law firm but he now fully committed to teaching and research. As an Energy Law Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, he has contributed to teaching a range of both on-campus and distance-learning courses like Petroleum Resource Governance, Energy Law, Oil and Gas Contracting, Oil and Gas Enterprise Management, Ocean and Society, Decommissioning of Offshore Installations (Regulatory and Commercial Aspects), Low Carbon Energy Transition (Renewable Energy Law) and Alternative Methods to Dispute Resolution.
His research interests include, risk governance, petroleum and natural resource governance, regulatory theories in high-major risk industries, decommissioning and clean energy regulation. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and Society of Legal Scholars. He also is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Director of the African Natural Resource and Energy Law Network (ANRELN).
External Memberships
Director, African Natural Resources and Energy Law Network (ANRELN)
Editorial Assistant, African Journal of International Energy and Environmental Law
Reviewer, Journal of African Law
Director, Aberdeen Nigeria Research Group
- Research
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Research Overview
Regulation and Regulatory Reconfigurations for High/Major Risk Industries,
Petroleum/Natural Resource Governance
Regulation of Offshore Marine Renewables
Energy and Environmental Law
Offshore Energy Decommissioning
The Resource Curse Theory
Energy Law in Sub-Sahran Africa
Offshore Energy Maximisation and the Political Economy of Speed
Risk Allocation in Oilfield Service Contracts
Current Research
Offshore Wind Energy Risk Governance in the United Kingdom, United States and Norway
Collaborations
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui on Strategic Program for International Collaboration (SPIRE) 2020, University of Bergen, Norway
Funding and Grants
Strategic Program for International Collaboration (SPIRE) 2020, University of Bergen, Norway
- Teaching
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Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
I have contributed to teaching or tutoring the following courses:
- Law and Decommissioning of Offshore Intsallations: Regulatory Aspects - LS502H
- Law and Decommissioning of Offshore Installations: Regulatory Aspects (online) - LS502T
- Co-Operative Contracts in the Oil and Gas Industry (Online) - LS502U
- Oceans and Society - SX1015
- Contracting in Hydrocarbon Operations - LS551K
- Risk Allocation in Oilfield Service Contracts (Online) - LS552Q
- Alternative Methods of Dispute Resolution - LS1523
- Governance and Petroleum Developments (Online) - LS552R
- Msc Project in Oil & Gas Enterprise Management - GL5923
- Decommisioning of Offshore Installations: Commercial Aspects - LS552S
- Energy Law
- Publications
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The Role of Environmental Impact Assessment in The Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Using the United Nation’s Environmental Programme EIA On Ogoni As A Case Study-Lessons from Some International Good Practices
International Energy Law Review, no. 3, pp. 111-117Contributions to Journals: Articles