Yazar: Ademola Oluborode Jegede

Ademola Oluborode Jegede is a full Professor of Law and an NRF rated researcher in the Ismail Mahomed Centre for Human and Peoples’ Rights, School of Law, Faculty of Management Commerce and Law, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa. He holds degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, University of Ibadan and the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. He was a research visitor at the Centre for International Environmental Law in the United States and at the Human Rights Institute at Abo Akademi in Finland. His research focuses on the intersection of climate change and biodiversity loss and the human rights of vulnerable groups. Writings include the co-edited volumes “Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law”, and “Climate change justice and human rights: An African perspective”, and the book “The climate change regulatory framework and indigenous peoples’ lands in Africa: Human rights implications”.