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Dr. Azubike Onuora-Oguno holds an LLB and BL Degrees from University of Ilorin, Nigeria and the Nigeria Law School; LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa and LLD in International Human Rights Law from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria South Africa. Dr. Onuora-Oguno was a former visiting scholar at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada. Dr. Onuora-Oguno has vast experience in International Criminal Law having served as a law clerk in the Office of The Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and currently a senior lecturer in the department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Ilorin a Teaching Research Fellow on Human Rights Law and Society at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands. Dr. Onuroa-Oguno is renowned for his research on the right to education, right to development, minority and vulnerable people’s rights in the context of African Human Rights Frameworks. Dr,Onuora-Oguno has won several research grants in law and society related studies with the most recent been the Open Society Initiative for West Africa grant to advance the study of Disability Law at the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Ilorin. He has in the recent past, spoken at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law; delivered the deans lecture at the Thurgood Marshal Law School in Texas. Dr. Onuora-Oguno is the Secretary of the International Public Law Society (ICON-S NG) Nigeria Chapter and the Deputy Secretary of the Nigeria Society of International Law. He also is one of the coordinators of an International Research Collaboration (IRC 27) of the Law and Society Association