Biography
Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi, SAN, FCIArb is the president of the Green Institute. He is an international lawyer, law professor, author, and policy consultant, with expertise in petroleum, energy and environmental law. A Professor of Law at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University, (Qatar Foundation), Doha, Qatar, he is also Chancellor’s Fellow and Director of the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institute), Afe Babalola University, Nigeria.
Professor Olawuyi’s areas of expertise cut across broad areas of global sustainability, specifically natural resources, energy and environment. He has published extensively on oil and gas law, climate change, and the intersections of human rights and environment. He has provided expert advice and opinion on seabed mining, electric power plant projects, carbon emission reduction and credit trading projects, including carbon capture and sequestration, energy efficiency and agricultural offset projects. He teaches courses on petroleum law, environmental law, climate change law, energy regulation, entrepreneurship law, business law and international commercial arbitration.
A prolific writer, Prof. Olawuyi has published over three-dozen journal articles, and three books in natural resources, energy and environmental law. He has been an expert speaker and commentator at several international conferences. He serves on the executive committees and boards of the American Society of International Law (Co-Chair), International Law Association, London, and the Environmental Law Center, Alberta, Canada. He is the Vice President of the International Law Association (Nigerian Branch), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy; Associate Editor of the Carbon and Climate Law Review; and Associate Fellow of the Center for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal.
Professor Olawuyi has lectured on energy and environmental law in over 20 countries including: Qatar, Great Britain, France, Denmark, United States, Australia, Spain, China, India, Kenya, Canada, United States and throughout Nigeria. He was most recently a visiting professor of law at the China University of Politicial Science and Law, Beijing, University Research Fellow at the Consortium for Peace Studies, University of Calgary, and a David Sive Scholar at Columbia Law School, New York, United States.
Professor Olawuyi was formerly an international energy lawyer at the leading global law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, where he served on the firm’s global committee on African extractive investments. He was also Deputy Director and head of international environmental law at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada.
Professor Olawuyi has been admitted as Barrister and Solicitor in Alberta, Canada; Ontario, Canada; and Nigeria
Education
DPhil
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2013
LL.M
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, United States
2009
LL.M
University of Calgary, Canada
2008
B.L (First Class Honours)
Nigerian Law School, Abuja, Nigeria
2006
LL.B (First Class Honours)
Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria
2005
Experience
Senior Visiting Research Fellow
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2016 – Present
Chancellor’s Fellow and Professor of International Law
Afe Babalola University, Nigeria
2016
Senior Lecturer in Law
College of Law, Afe Babalola University, Nigeria
2012-2016
David Sive Scholar
Columbia Law School, New York
2016-2016
Visiting Professor of Law
China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
2015, 2016
Barrister and Solicitor
Energy Practice Group, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2012-2016
University Research Fellow
Energy and Environmental Law, University of Calgary, Canada
2011-2012
Consultant
Energy and Environmental Law, International Development Law Organization, Rome, Italy
2011
Selected Publications
The Human Rights Based Approach to Carbon Finance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
[440 pages]2016
Book Review: International Environmental Law and the Global South (Shawkat Alam, Sumudu Atapattu, Carmen G. Gonzalez, and Jona Razzaque, eds.)
29:2 LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Cambridge University Press) pp. 611-6162016
Ontario’s Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Economy Act: Pious Aspirations or New Dawn?
16 (1) CONSILIENCE: THE JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Columbia University, New York) pp. 29-372016
Legal Strategies and Tools for Mitigating Legal Risks Associated with Oil and Gas Investments in Africa
39 (3) OPEC ENERGY REVIEW (OXFORD: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS) (2015) 247-2652015
Climate Justice and Corporate Responsibility: Taking Human Rights Seriously in Climate Actions and Projects
34: 1 JOURNAL OF ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES LAW, DOI:10.1080/02646811.2016.1120583 (Taylor and Francis)2015
‘Fostering Accountability in Large Scale Environmental Projects: Lessons from CDM and REDD+ Projects’ in J Wouters, A Ninio
T Doherty and H Cisse (eds.), Improving Delivery in Development: The Role of Voice, Social Contract, and Accountability (Washington: The World Bank Legal Review 2015) chapter 5, 127-1472015
A Proposal for a Compensation Mechanism For Small Island States: Response to Maxine Burkett
13 (1) SANTA CLARA J. OF INT’L. LAW (Santa Clara Law School) (2015) 133-1492015
Increasing Relevance of Right-Based Approaches to Resource Governance in Africa: Shifting from Regional Aspiration to Local Realization
11 (2) MCGILL INT. J OF SUST. DEV. LAW AND POLICY (McGill University Law School, Canada)2015
Advancing Climate Justice in International Law: An Evaluation of the United Nations Human Rights Based Approach (by invitation)
8 (1) FAMU LAW REV. (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) Law School) (Spring 2015)2015
The Emergence of Right-Based Approaches to Resource Governance in Africa: False Start or New Dawn?
15 (2) SUSTAINABLE DEV’TL. L. & POL. (American University Washington College of Law) (2015) 13-212015
Damilola Olawuyi and Ajibade I., ‘Climate Change Impacts on Housing and Property Rights in Nigeria and Panama: Toward a Rights-Based Approach to Adaptation and Mitigation’, in: Dominic Stucker and Elena Lopez-Gunn (eds.)
Adaptation to Climate Change through Water Resources Management: Capacity, Equity and Sustainability (New York: Routledge 2014) chapter 13, 264-2842014
Harmonizing International Trade and Climate Change Institutions: Legal and Theoretical Basis for Systemic Integration
7 (2) LAW AND DEVELOPMENT. REVIEW2014
Regulating Unconventional Oil and Gas Production: Towards an International Sustainability Framework
13 (3) INDONESIA J. OF INT. LAW (Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia) (2014), pp 345-3622014
Recognizing the Intersections between Human Rights and the Environment in Legal Education and Training
1 (2) ASIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION (SAGE PUBLISHERS, LONDON) (2014) 103-1132014
Aguan Biogas Project and the Government of the United Kingdom: Legal and International Human Rights Assessment
4 (3) QUEEN MARY L. J. (The School of Law, Queen Mary University of London) (2013) 37-502013
Power Generation through Renewable Energy Sources: An Analysis of the Legal Barriers and Potentials in Nigeria
10 (2) J. OF RESOURCES, ENERGY, AND DEV. (IOS Press) (2013) 105-1122013
Towards a Transparent and Accountable Clean Development Mechanism: Legal and Institutional Imperatives (2012)
2 (2) NORDIC ENV. L. J (Uppsala University, Sweden)2013
Damilola Olawuyi, Rethinking the Place of Flexible Mechanisms in Kyoto’s Post 2012 Commitments
6 (1) J. OF LAW, ENVT. AND DEV. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) (2010) 23-352010
Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa through the Clean Development Mechanism: Legal and Institutional Issues Considered
17 (2) AFRICAN J. OF INT. & COMP. LAW (Edinburgh University Press) (2009) 270-3012009
Damilola Olawuyi, ‘Beautifying Africa for the Clean Development Mechanism- Legal and Institutional Issues Considered’, in Benjamin Richardson, Yves Le Bouthillier, Heather McLeod- Kilmurray & Stefan Wood (eds.)
Climate Change Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Community (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009) chapter 11, 262-2842009
Research Interests
International Petroleum Transactions
Energy Law and Policy
Climate Change Law and Policy
Africa and the Middle East
International Environmental Law
Business and Human Rights
Business Organizations
Structuring Transactions: Business Practice
Environmental Dispute Resolution
International Commercial Arbitration