Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf

@unilorin.edu.ng

Senior Lecturer/Department of Public Law
University of Ilorin

Dr Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin. He is the Sub-Dean (Academic) of the Postgraduate School and formerly the Faculty of Law Representative on the Postgraduate School Board. His research interest is comparative constitutional law with respect to the digital eco-system, data protection law and regulation of emerging technologies. Dr. Abdulrauf has published several articles and chapters in international and national journals and books. He has also presented his research in various international conferences.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Law, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Publications

175

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

Modelling the nexus between finance, government revenue, institutional quality and sustainable energy supply in West Africa
Kayode David Kolawole, Biliqees Ayoola Abdulmumin, Gizem Uzuner, Oluwagbenga Abayomi Seyingbo, and Lukman Adebayo-Oke Abdulrauf
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AbstractThe present study examined the relationship between finance, government revenue, institutional quality and sustainable energy supply in West Africa countries over annual frequency period from 2012 to 2020. To achieve the outlined nexus between study variables, the present study leverages on a battery of panel analysis for robust inferences. The econometric estimators employed are panel random effect regression, generalized method of moment technique. Furthermore, panel Granger causality test is utilized to analyze the direction of flow among the variables for the study. Empirical results revealed that financial development is a significant determinant of energy supply in West Africa countries while a negligible effect was reported for institutional quality and sustainable energy supply. Thus, the present study concludes that finance from financial sector is important in ensuring sufficient energy supply. To this end, this study therefore, recommends that incentives should be given to financial institutions that fund energy generation and transmission as financial development is seen to be significant on energy supply.

Clarifying the legal requirement for cross-border sharing of health data in POPIA: Recommendations on the draft Code of Conduct for Research
L Abdulrauf, A Adaji, and H Ojibara
South African Medical Association NPC
The draft Code of Conduct for Research is an important initiative towards assisting the scientific community in complying with the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA). However, its approach towards cross-border data sharing should be reconsidered to clarify the ambiguities inherent in the legal requirements for the cross-border sharing of health data in the POPIA. These ambiguities include the concept of ‘transfer of information’, the application of adequacy as a legal mechanism for transfer, the nature of consent for cross-border sharing and the scope of the recipient third party. We suggest that the draft Code of Conduct for Research can be improved by: Explaining or defining the concept of ‘transfer of information’ and when it applies to cross-border sharing in research Clarifying the application of adequacy as a legal mechanism for transfer vis-à-vis the other alternatives Expanding on the interpretation and application of consent as a legal mechanism for cross-border transfers Expanding the category of persons who may be recipients of personal information in a third country

Response to Brand et al. (2022) ‘Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies’
Donrich Thaldar, Lukman Abdulrauf, Paul Ogendi, Amy Gooden, Dusty-Lee Donnelly, and Beverley Townsend
Academy of Science of South Africa

MANAGING COVID-19 IN A ‘FAÇADE FEDERALISM’: The case of Nigeria
Lukman Abdulrauf
Routledge
Managing Covid-19 has been a challenge for countries, such as Nigeria, with poor infrastructure and a weak health-care system. Nigeria was not prepared for a pandemic of this magnitude when Covid-19 struck. Deploying the necessary resources in controlling the spread of the pandemic therefore meant the federal arrangement would be put to test. Thus, the pandemic presented an opportunity to re-assess Nigeria’s federal governance system given the recent resurgence of the clamour for restructuring. While federalism was originally put in place in the country to bring together diverse ethno-religious interests, recent events now reveal that there are deeper issues which federalism ought to address and which are left unattended. This chapter aims at examining Nigeria’s multi-government level response to Covid-19. It finds that the practice of federalism in the country is dysfunctional and this is made more apparent by the handling of the pandemic which revealed more centralisation of powers and the diminishing role of federating units. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Nico Steytler.

Giving ‘teeth’ to the African Union towards advancing compliance with data privacy norms
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT That international organizations have always played a pivotal role in the development and advancement of data privacy norms is now beyond doubt. With regard to advancing compliance specifically, the role of international organizations cannot be overemphasized. Although data privacy is no longer new to Africa, compliance with data privacy norms has been significantly lower compared to other jurisdictions. A (possible) explanation for this is that the primary regional organization on the continent – the African (AU) – has played an insignificant role in this regard. Related to this explanation is the usual contention that the absence of a settled normative standard is a reason for the low level of compliance. Since there is now a continental data privacy standard in Africa - the AU Data Protection Convention - the question remains why is compliance still low. Therefore, using insights from the normative and institutional theories of state compliance with international norms, the article examines why there is still a low compliance rate. The article then suggests how to strengthen the AU towards advancing compliance with data privacy norms on the continent.

Comparative overview of the constitutional framework for controlling the exercise of emergency powers in Africa
Charles Manga Fombad and Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
Academy of Science of South Africa
The need to act swiftly in times ofemergency gives governments a reason to exercise emergency powers. This is a legally valid and accepted practice in modern democracies. Post-independence African constitutions contained provisions that sought to regulate states of emergency, placing the emphasis on who could make such declarations and what measures could be taken, but paid scant attention to the safeguards that were needed to ensure that the enormous powers that governments were allowed to accrue and exercise in dealing with emergencies were not abused. As a result, these broad powers were regularly used to abuse fundamental human rights and suppress opponents of the government. In the post-1990 wave of constitutional reforms in Africa, some attempts were made to introduce safeguards against the misuse of emergency powers. This article undertakes a comparative assessment of the extent to which these reforms have reduced the risk that the exercise of emergency powers poses to human rights and progress towards constitutionalism and respect for the rule of law, especially in times of global pandemics such as COVID-19. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of the constitutional reforms designed to check against the abuse of emergency powers. In most African countries, governments in dealing with the virus decided to act within the legislative framework, which subjects them to few checks rather than rely on the constitutional frameworks which in most cases provide for more elaborate checks. It is clear from the experiences of the past few months that most African constitutions never anticipated an emergency of such magnitude. The article concludes by arguing that one of the major lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that there is a need to review the constitutional and regulatory framework for the exercise of emergency powers to better prepare for future pandemics.

Using Specialised Anti-Corruption Agencies to Combat Pervasive Corruption in Nigeria: A Critical Review of the ICPC and EFCC
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
Brill
Abstract The use of specialised anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) to combat corruption is increasingly popular among African countries. This is no surprise considering the successes these agencies have recorded elsewhere in the world, on the strength of which they have been described as ‘the most innovative feature of the anti-corruption movement of the last two decades’. Yet while ACAs have been successful in other parts of the world, the same cannot be said of those in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular. Even with two ACAs – the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – corruption continues to soar in the country, making it necessary to examine the flaws of Nigeria’s ACAs. Focusing on a number of key characteristics of ACAs, this article analyses the role of the ICPC and EFCC in combating corruption in Nigeria. The main question the article seeks to answer is why corruption should be on the increase despite the fact that two specialised ACAs have been in existence for close to two decades.

Personal Data Protection in Nigeria: Reflections on Opportunities, Options and Challenges to Legal Reforms
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf and Charles Manga Fombad
Springer Science and Business Media LLC

The African Union’s data protection Convention 2014: A possible cause for celebration of human rights in Africa?
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf and Charles Manga Fombad
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT It is now widely recognised that the unregulated processing of personal information has had a significant impact on key human rights like privacy, dignity, integrity, personality and autonomy. However, while other regions of the world have taken concerted action to protect the personal rights of individuals by adopting data protection instruments, Africa has generally lagged behind. This is so in spite of the steady growth in access to and usage of ICT and the internet which has facilitated the exploitation of individuals’ personal information with the attendant risk of infringement of their rights. An important step to change this situation was taken when African leaders in June 2014, agreed to a landmark Convention on data protection. This Convention has provoked mixed reactions from stakeholders and privacy advocates. While some are sceptical as to the effectiveness of this Convention, others have welcomed it as a cause for celebration of human rights on the continent. This paper assesses the potential impact this Convention will have on the protection of individual's personal data.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

The Complex Path to Digital Constitutionalism in Africa
L Abdulrauf
2024

INDEPENDENCE OF DATA PROTECTION
AIN AFRICA
Data privacy law in Africa: Emerging perspectives, 355 2024

Data privacy law in Africa: Emerging perspectives
LA Abdulrauf, H Dube
Pretoria University Law Press 2024

Intellectual property issues for open science practices in genomic-related health research and innovation in Africa
AE Adaji, LA Abdulrauf
Journal of Law and the Biosciences 11 (2), lsae026 2024

Cross-border data sharing for research in Africa: An analysis of the data protection and research ethics requirements in 12 jurisdictions
C Staunton, A Edgcumbe, L Abdulrauf, A Gooden, P Ogendi, D Thaldar
Research Square, rs. 3. rs-4217849 2024

Clarifying the legal requirement for cross-border sharing of health data in POPIA: Recommendations on the draft Code of Conduct for Research
L Abdulrauf, A Adaji, H Ojibara
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law 17 (1), 44-48 2024

Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
AIN AFRICA
DATA PRIVACY LAW IN AFRICA, 355 2024

Response to Brand et al.(2022)‘Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies
D Thaldar, L Abdulrauf, P Ogendi, A Gooden, DL Donnelly, B Townsend
South African Journal of Science 119 (11-12) 2023

Response to Brand et al.(2022)‘Data sharing governance in sub-Saharan Africa during public health emergencies’
L Abdulrauf, P Ogendi, A Gooden, DL Donnelly, B Townsend
2023

A data transfer agreement template for South Africa (1.0). Zenodo
L Swales, P Ogendi, M Botes, B Townsend, DL Donnelly, L Abdulrauf, ...
2023

VIRTUAL PROCEEDINGS, FAIR HEARING & ELECTORAL PROCESS: THE EMERGING JURISPRUDENCE
MT Adekilekun, AO Ugowe, LA Abdulrauf, IA Abikan
ESUT PUBLIC LAW JOURNAL 4 (1) 2023

Online criminal justice: Challenges and prospects for the administration of justice in Nigeria
LA Abdulrauf
Challenges of Dispensation of Justice in the 21st Century Nigeria: Legal 2022

Managing COVID-19 in a ‘faade federalism’: The case of Nigeria
L Abdulrauf
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19, 355-372 2021

Giving ‘teeth’to the African Union towards advancing compliance with data privacy norms
LA Abdulrauf
Information & Communications Technology Law 30 (2), 87-107 2021

The (Potential) Economic Impact of Data Localisation Policies on Nigeria's Regional Trade Obligations
L Abdulrauf, Abe, Oyeniyi
https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/commerce 2021

States of emergency and the rule of law under contemporary African constitutions: A comparative analysis
LA Abdulrauf
Journal of Comparative Law in Africa 8 (1), 67-101 2021

Nigeria’s Emergency (Legal) Response to COVID-19: A Worthy Sacrifice for Public Health?
L Abdulrauf
Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional 2020

Using specialised anti-corruption agencies to combat pervasive corruption in Nigeria: A critical review of the ICPC and EFCC
LA Abdulrauf
African Journal of Legal Studies 12 (3-4), 215-241 2020

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O BORE
2020

Data Protection in the Internet
DM Vicente, S de Vasconcelos Casimiro
Springer 2020

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Giving ‘teeth’to the African Union towards advancing compliance with data privacy norms
LA Abdulrauf
Information & Communications Technology Law 30 (2), 87-107 2021
Citations: 28

The African Union’s data protection Convention 2014: a possible cause for celebration of human rights in Africa?
LA Abdulrauf, CM Fombad
Journal of Media Law 2016
Citations: 21

Personal data protection in Nigeria: Reflections on opportunities, options and challenges to legal reforms
LA Abdulrauf, CM Fombad
Liverpool Law Review 38, 105-134 2017
Citations: 19

Using specialised anti-corruption agencies to combat pervasive corruption in Nigeria: A critical review of the ICPC and EFCC
LA Abdulrauf
African Journal of Legal Studies 12 (3-4), 215-241 2020
Citations: 13

Customary arbitration in Nigeria: a review of extant judicial parameters and the need for paradigm shift
MM Akanbi, LA Abdulrauf, AA Daibu
Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The) 6 (1), 199-201 2015
Citations: 11

Nigeria’s Emergency (Legal) Response to COVID-19: A Worthy Sacrifice for Public Health?
L Abdulrauf
Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional 2020
Citations: 10

The implementation of modern African Constitutions: Challenges and prospects
CM Fombad, NA Inegbedion, TR Maseko, L Abdulrauf, T Chigwata, ...
PULP 2016
Citations: 10

The legal protection of data privacy in Nigeria: lessons from Canada and South Africa
LA Abdulrauf
PQDT-Global 2015
Citations: 9

Do we need to bother about protecting our personal data?: Reflections on neglecting data protection in Nigeria
LA Abdulrauf
Yonsei LJ 5, 163 2014
Citations: 9

Comparative overview of the constitutional framework for controlling the exercise of emergency powers in Africa
CM Fombad, LA Abdulrauf
African Human Rights Law Journal 20 (2), 376-411 2020
Citations: 8

Data Protection in the Internet: South Africa
LA Abdulrauf
Data Protection in the Internet, 349-370 2020
Citations: 7

A data transfer agreement template for South Africa (1.0). Zenodo
L Swales, P Ogendi, M Botes, B Townsend, DL Donnelly, L Abdulrauf, ...
2023
Citations: 5

Managing COVID-19 in a ‘faade federalism’: The case of Nigeria
L Abdulrauf
Comparative Federalism and Covid-19, 355-372 2021
Citations: 3

New technologies and the right to privacy in Nigeria: evaluating the tension between traditional and modern conceptions
LA Abdulrauf, AA Daibu
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence 7 2016
Citations: 3

Data Protection in the Internet
DM Vicente, S de Vasconcelos Casimiro
Springer 2020
Citations: 2

The challenges for the rule of law posed by the increasing use of electronic surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa
LA Abdulrauf
African Human Rights Law Journal 18 (1), 365-391 2018
Citations: 2

Introduction to the Constitution of Togo
K Komali, A Lukman
Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) Country
Citations: 2