Wahab Olasupo Egbewole

@unilorin.edu.ng

Vice Chancellor
Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Ilorin



                 

https://researchid.co/eabdulwahab

Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN is the 11th Vice Chancellor, former member of the Governing Council, former Director of General Studies, former Dean of Faculty of Law, and a Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Ilorin, Ilorin Nigeria. He has several publications in journals, conference proceedings, edited books and book chapter contributions. He is Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) which is a testament of his contribution to the law profession, aside the academic field of law. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Arbitrators of Nigeria. His areas of interest include Judicial Studies, Electoral Jurisprudence, Public International Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Religion and Law and Society.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Judicial Studies, Electoral Jurisprudence, Public International Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Religion and Law and Society.

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Scholar Citations

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RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The Future of Legal Profession in Nigeria: Quo Vadis?
    E Wahab O.
    Law Students Society University of Ilorin Public Lecture, 16 2021

  • Comparative exposition of judicial interventionism in the enforcement of the healthcare right in Nigeria and India
    I Imam, WO Egbewole
    Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 53 (1), 36 2020

  • The Indian Approach to Criminal Justice: The Role of Traditional Courts as Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
    N Somaru, C Rautenbach
    Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 53 (2), 1-40 2020

  • Introspection into the Electoral Amendment Act, its proposals and Efforts by the National Assembly at Ammending the Act
    WO Egbewole
    Electoral Process Law and Justice, 304 2020

  • Weakening National Judicial Institutions and the Rescue Mission of Regional Courts: A Critical Assessment of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice
    I Imam, WO Egbewole
    Journal of Law, Society and Development 7 (1), 1-28 2020

  • The Impacts of Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) On Pre-Existing Contracts In Nigeria
    MT Adekilekun, AA Ahmed, WO Egbewole
    IJOCLLEP 2, 22 2020

  • Impact of the judiciary on the Nigerian social and economic development
    I Imam, WO Egbewole
    Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence 10 2019

  • Education law, strategic policy and sustainable development in Africa
    AC Onuora-Oguno, W Egbewole, T Kleven
    Agenda 2063 2018

  • Re-Emergence of Shari'ah Penal Law in Northern Nigeria: Issues and Options
    HA Hammed, WO Egbewole
    ICR Journal 8 (3), 368-385 2017

  • Current status of electoral law in Nigeria
    I Imam, WO Egbewole
    Journal of Public and International Law, College of Law, Al-Hikmah University 2017

  • Judex and the Theory of Scapegoatism in Nigeria: Deconstructing and Renegotiating the Doctrine of Separation of Powers
    WO Egbewole, QA Egbewole
    Paper delivered at the African Bar Association Conference, Portharcourt, 6-10 2017

  • Judicial Independence, its Origins and its Operational Dynamics
    WO Egbewole
    Judicial Independence in Africa, 369 2017

  • Realizing Socio-Economic Rights in Nigeria and the Justiciability Question: Lessons from South Africa and India
    WO Egbewole, TN Alatise
    Journals Inc. USA 23, 34 2017

  • The role of judiciary in developing democracy in nigeria: Activism versus passivism
    WO Egbewole, I Imam
    T. Marshall L. Rev. 43, 477 2017

  • Nigerian judiciary and the challenge of corruption: Islamic options as panacea
    W Egbewole, I Imam
    Journal of Islam in Nigeria 1 (1), 84-103 2015

  • Impunity and Justice in Nigeria: Weeping for the Innocent, extra judicial killings on the rise?
    WO Egbewole, AC Onuora-Oguno
    Faculty of Law, University of Benin. 2014

  • Judex: Hope for the Hopeful and the Hopeless: the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth (139th) Inaugural Lecture
    WO Egbewole
    University of Ilorin 2013

  • Security challenges: The role of the Nigerian woman
    WO Egbewole
    Keynote address at the annual conference of international federation of 2013

  • THE JOURNAL JURISPRUDENCE
    W Egbewole, MOA Olatunji, M Abdelaal, E Egede, O Onazi, M Etudaiye, ...
     2012

  • Constitutional justice and democracy in Nigeria: challenges and prospects
    WO Egbewole
    African Administrative Studies, 49-63 2012

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Education law, strategic policy and sustainable development in Africa
    AC Onuora-Oguno, W Egbewole, T Kleven
    Agenda 2063 2018
    Citations: 18

  • Religion, politics and justice: Interplay of forces in Nigeria
    WO Egbewole, MA Etudaiye
    Retrieved on 20 (8), 2011 2011
    Citations: 15

  • Security challenges: The role of the Nigerian woman
    WO Egbewole
    Keynote address at the annual conference of international federation of 2013
    Citations: 14

  • The role of opposition in Nigerian politics
    WO Egbewole, MA Etudaiye
    African Journal of Political Science and International Relations 4 (6), 215 2010
    Citations: 10

  • Independent judiciary and sustainable democracy
    E Wahab
    challenges of sustainable democracy in Nigeria (1st ed., pp209-234). Ibadan 2006
    Citations: 10

  • Nigerian judiciary and the challenge of corruption: Islamic options as panacea
    W Egbewole, I Imam
    Journal of Islam in Nigeria 1 (1), 84-103 2015
    Citations: 8

  • Justiciability Theory versus Political Question Doctrine: Challenges of the Nigerian Judiciary in the determination of electoral and other related cases
    WO Egbewole, OA Olatunji
    J. Juris 14, 117 2012
    Citations: 6

  • Globalisation and its challenges on national legal systems-a case study of Nigeria
    WO Egbewole
    Indian Journal of International Law 43 (2), 332-348 2003
    Citations: 6

  • Judex: Hope for the Hopeful and the Hopeless: the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth (139th) Inaugural Lecture
    WO Egbewole
    University of Ilorin 2013
    Citations: 4

  • The Impacts of Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) On Pre-Existing Contracts In Nigeria
    MT Adekilekun, AA Ahmed, WO Egbewole
    IJOCLLEP 2, 22 2020
    Citations: 3

  • Realizing Socio-Economic Rights in Nigeria and the Justiciability Question: Lessons from South Africa and India
    WO Egbewole, TN Alatise
    Journals Inc. USA 23, 34 2017
    Citations: 3

  • Judicial Activism and Intervention in the Doctrine of Political Questions in Nigeria: An Analytical Exposition"
    I Imam, AO SAMBO, W EGBEWOLE, AB ABDULKADIR
    Afr JL & Crim 2011, 50 2011
    Citations: 2

  • Perspectives on the legislature in the Government of Nigeria
    MOA Alabi, WO Egbewole
    African Training and Research Centre in Administration and Development 2010
    Citations: 2

  • The Legislature in Nigeria: Analysis of a Neglected Institution of Governance
    MOA Alabi, WO Egbewole
    Perspectives on the Legislature in the Government of Nigeria 2010
    Citations: 2

  • The place of judiciary in sustenance of democracy
    W Egbewole
    Democracy and development in Nigeria. Ibadan: John Archers Publishers Limited 2006
    Citations: 2

  • Egbewole is former dean, Faculty of Law, Director
    O Wahab
    General Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Department of Jurisprudence
    Citations: 2

  • Comparative exposition of judicial interventionism in the enforcement of the healthcare right in Nigeria and India
    I Imam, WO Egbewole
    Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 53 (1), 36 2020
    Citations: 1

  • Re-Emergence of Shari'ah Penal Law in Northern Nigeria: Issues and Options
    HA Hammed, WO Egbewole
    ICR Journal 8 (3), 368-385 2017
    Citations: 1

  • Judex and the Theory of Scapegoatism in Nigeria: Deconstructing and Renegotiating the Doctrine of Separation of Powers
    WO Egbewole, QA Egbewole
    Paper delivered at the African Bar Association Conference, Portharcourt, 6-10 2017
    Citations: 1

  • The role of judiciary in developing democracy in nigeria: Activism versus passivism
    WO Egbewole, I Imam
    T. Marshall L. Rev. 43, 477 2017
    Citations: 1