Professor akin oyebode biography of rory
My guest today is Akin Oyebode from Ekiti State....
Professor Akin Oyebode was born in Ado-Ekiti of Ikole-Ekiti extraction on December 9, 1947. He attended the famous Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti for both his secondary and Higher School Certificate education before proceeding to the Kiev State University, Ukraine on a Federal Government scholarship in 1967 to study International Law.
After obtaining the LL.M.
with highest distinction, he returned to the country in 1973 and joined University of Lagos as an Assistant Lecturer.
Your graduation ceremony is a blend of centuries of academic history woven with the University's own traditions.
In 1974, he was admitted to the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, obtaining another LL.M. in 1975. He subsequently went to the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, the largest and leading law school in Canada, earning the Doctor of Jurisprudence (D.Jur.) in 1988, having specialized on the Law of Treaties.
In 1991, he was appointed Professor of Law and founding Dean of the Faculty of Law of the then Ondo State University, a position he held until 1997, when he returned to the Uni