About Bamisaye OLUTOLA, PhD (Editor in Chief)

Dr. Bamisaye Olutola is an international scholar. He obtained his LLB degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and earned both his LLM and LLD degrees from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has published widely in both local and international journals on areas ranging from international law and international human rights law to comparative constitutional law. In 2019, he presented a paper at the Global Youth International Program (GYIP) for young constitutional law scholars, and more recently, at the First International Conference on Children's Rights organized by the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, held on 10–11 August 2024. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, College of Law, Caleb University, Lagos State, Nigeria

Selected Publications

1.       Bamisaye Olutola, Critiquing the Right to Life in Nigeria: Insights from the South African Constitution (2024) (4) (1) Achievers University Law Journal

2.         Olutola, Bamisaye, and Martins Olatomide Osakinle, Right to Peaceful Demonstration under the African Charter: A Ruse or Reality? (2023) Elizade University Law Journal (vol 6) 146-170

3.         Bamisaye Olutola, Right to Political Participation Under The 1999 Constitution: A Fundamental or Inconsequential Omission? (2021) UNIZIK Journal of Public and Private Law (vol 11) 227-243

4.         Bamisaye Olutola, ‘Constitutional Safeguards for the independence of the Judiciary in African Democracies’ (Korean Association of International Association of Constitutional Law, 2020-12-31Vol.26 (3), p.297-323, ISBN: 1226-6825)

5.         Bamisaye Olawaye Olutola, ‘Youth Right to Political Participation under International Human Rights Law’ (2020, Vol. 5, Kabarak Journal of Law and Ethics, P 128-146)

6.         Bamisaye Olutola ‘The Right to Peaceful Assembly in a Chaotic Democracy: An Analysis of Nigerian Law’ in Michael Addaney, Michael Gyan Nyarko, and Elsabe Boshoff (eds) Developments in Governance and Human Rights in Contemporary Africa (Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

7.         Bamisaye Olawaye Olutola & Osy Nwebo, ‘Contextualizing youth political participation in Nigeria: An assessment of legal norms’ in Governance in Nigeria post-1999: Revisiting the democratic ‘new dawn’of the Fourth Republic; Romola Adeola & Ademola Oluborode Jegede (eds) (Pretoria University Law Press 2019)

8.         Michael Addaney, Bamisaye Olutola & Kabaseke Charlotte, ‘Recent advances in environmental rights and environmental protection in the African Human Rights System: A review of the Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the SERAC v Nigeria Case’ in Michael Addaney, Michael Gyan Nyarko, and Elsabe Boshoff (eds) Developments in Governance and Human Rights in Contemporary Africa (Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019)

9.         Michael Addaney, Elsabe Boshoff & Bamisaye Olutola, The Climate Change and Human Rights Nexus in Africa (Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol 9.3 Summer Issue 2017, page 6)

10.       Dr. S.A. Igbinedion, Dr. A. Akintayo & Bamisaye Olutola, Human Rights Considerations in Formulating a National Security Mandate Conference Proceedings of the Nigerian Association of Law in Nigeria (2017) 342-359

11.       Anupam Jha, Bamisaye Olawaye Oyetola & Rajendra Parsad Gunputh, Boko Haram and the threat to regional peace and security: A Critical Survey 1 (2) Just Africa (2016) 79-89

12.       Bamisaye Oyetola, Deadly blow for women’s rights in Lesotho (AfricLaw,2014)