Personal details
Imran Oluwole Smith
Professor of Law; Legal Consultant; Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales;
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)
e-mail: is22@soas.ac.uk
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Areas of Specialisation
African Law; Property Law (including Law of Trusts); Planning Law and Compulsory
Acquisition; Environmental Law; Law of secured credit transactions; International Commercial
Arbitration
Publications
Author of four (4) Law text /Practice books and many Articles in learned journals; Editor of books, learned journals and Law Report
Ph.D Thesis Supervised to date
J.F. Fekumo: "Problems and prospects of Compulsory Acquisition of Land and
Compensation in Nigeria". (November 2003)
M.A. Banire:
“Land Management in Nigeria: Towards a New Legal Framework” (December
2005)
R. A. Onuoha: A Legal Framework for Land as Security in Nigeria: Reforms and Alternatives
(July 2008)
Public Lectures delivered to date
(i) Public lecture organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of
London U. K.(20 October 1997).
Title of Lecture:
I. O. Smith: "Environment Planning and Management in the Developing World: An assessment of the Laws, Policies and Practices."
(ii) Public lecture organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U. K. (14 October 1999).
Title of Lecture:
I. O. Smith: "Corporate Social Responsibility Towards a Healthier Environment in the
Next Millennium: How Prepared is Nigeria?"
(iii) Public lecture organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of
London U. K. (23 October 2000).
Title of Lecture:
I. O. Smith : New Dimension in the Law of Secured Credit: Another effect of
Globalisation?
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(iv) Public lecture organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of
London, U. K. (9 October 2001).
Title of Lecture:
I. O. Smith : Towards a Human Rights Convention on Persons with Disabilities.
(v) Public lecture organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of
London U. K. (16 October 2003)
Title of lecture:
I. O. Smith : Power to make Planning Laws in a Federation: The Nigerian experience.
(vi) Public lecture organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of
London,U.K (24 November, 2005)
Title of lecture:
I.O. Smith:
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Terrorism, pre-emptive self defence and State interests: What challenges for contemporary international legal order?
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