Professor Abdulfatai Oladapo Sambo
Professor Abdulfatai Oladapo Sambo is also a Principal/Managing Partner in The S & A Law Lounge. He has about 20 (twenty) years experience in active legal practice in diverse areas of law including election matters, human rights issues, dispute resolution, corporate practice, labour disputes, criminal and commercial litigations.
In the academic field, he has successfully supervised at least Thirty (30) Master’s Degree students and 4 Ph.D. Students. He currently supervises about Seven (7) Ph.D. students. He is a Professor in the Public Law Department, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. He has about 70 published works to his credit both locally and internationally.
He has acted as a resource person in many Workshops locally and internationally particularly at the Workshop on the Future of Decentralisation: Co-existence and Co-prosperity targeted at the Unification of South and North Korea organised by the Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul & Korea Legislative Research Institute on the 20th of June, 2018. He was also one of the resource persons who taught Public International Law at the training organised by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) for South Sudanese judges in Malaysia.
He is a Member of Human Dignity: A Constitutional Principle Research Group of the International Association of Constitutional Law Scholars. He presented the 278th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ilorin, titled: Judicialising Politics without Politicising the Judex on the 17th of April, 2025.