Dr Uchechukwu Nwoke
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 876251
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Location
5S.6.25, Colchester Campus
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Profile
Biography
Uchechukwu Nwoke is a Lecturer at Essex Law School. Dr Nwoke's research focuses on the relationship between law and business, and how economic factors impact business operations. Specifically, he is interested in exploring how law and business interact, and how a fair and structured approach supported by rules is essential to ensure that companies operate efficiently, ultimately contributing to the economic growth of society. Before joining the University of Essex, Dr Nwoke was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. He holds a PhD from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, an LLM from the University of Wales, UK, and an LLB from the University of Nigeria. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2005. Dr Nwoke has also worked as a consultant for NGOs in Nigeria, working with the UNDP to train parties on treaty bodies and obligations of state parties under treaties, and monitoring follow-up obligations on human rights reporting mechanisms.
Qualifications
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PhD University of Kent,
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LLM University of Wales,
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LLB University of Nigeria,
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Final Year Research Project (LW304)
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Carriage of Goods By Sea (LW604)
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Corporate Responsibility and Business Law (LW941)
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Commercial Conflict of Laws (LW966)
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International Sale of Goods (LW603)
Publications
Journal articles (15)
Nwoke, U., Neoliberal Paradigm and Structural Injustice: Re-evaluating Private Property Rights in Company Ownership in Nigeria. Journal of African Law
Nwoke, U., (2025). Regulating Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria: An evaluation through the Lens of the Old Institutional Economic Theory. Journal of Developing Societies. 41 (1), 143-177
Nwoke, U., Ekwelem, CM. and Agbowo-Egbo, HC., (2023). Curbing corruption and promoting a more efficient corporate governance regime in Nigeria. Journal of Financial Crime. 30 (2), 536-548
Nwoke, U., Ukwueze, FO., Odinkonigbo, JJ. and Obi-Ochiabutor, CC., (2022). Re-Conceptualizing the Rule of Law in Africa: Metaphors of the Tool and the Causeway. Journal of African Law. 66 (3), 367-389
Nwoke, U. and Onoh, IH., (2022). Rule of law and preventing fraud in Nigeria’s capital market. Journal of Financial Crime. 29 (3), 951-961
Nwoke, U., (2021). (In)Effective Business Responsibility Engagements in Areas of Limited Statehood: Nigeria’s Oil Sector as a Case Study. Business & Society. 60 (7), 1606-1642
Nwoke, U., (2020). Imposition of trade tariffs by the USA on China: implications for the WTO and international trade law. Journal of International Trade Law and Policy. 19 (2), 69-84
Anike, NB., Odoh, JC. and Nwoke, U., (2020). Concurrent application of the Hague and Hamburg rules: ascertaining the applicable law to contracts for the carriage of goods by sea in Nigeria. Commonwealth Law Bulletin. 46 (2), 195-214
Nwoke, U., (2019). Whistle-blowing as a corporate governance mechanism: South Africa and Nigeria in perspective. Journal of Corporate Law Studies. 19 (2), 421-450
Nwoke, U., (2019). Access to Information under the Nigerian Freedom of Information Act, 2011: Challenges to Implementation and the Rhetoric of Radical Change. Journal of African Law. 63 (3), 435-461
Nwoke, U., (2019). Neoliberal corporate governance mechanisms. International Journal of Law and Management. 61 (5/6), 542-562
Nwoke, U., Ukaoma, CO. and Josiah Alozie, O., (2019). Promoting a more efficient corporate governance in Nigeria through the law. Commonwealth Law Bulletin. 45 (4), 697-715
Nwoke, U., Ajibo, CC. and Umahi, TO., (2018). Neoliberal shareholder value and the re-privatization of corporations. International Journal of Law and Management. 60 (6), 1354-1376
Nwoke, U., (2017). Corporations and development. International Journal of Law and Management. 59 (1), 122-146
Nwoke, U., (2016). Two complimentary duties under corporate social responsibility. International Journal of Law and Management. 58 (1), 2-25
Books (1)
Monye, F. and Nwoke, U., (2023). Commercial Law in Nigeria: Carriage of Goods by Sea. Princeton & Associates Publishing Co. Ltd. 978-978-780-563-3
Book chapters (2)
Egbon, O., Nwoke, U. and Agbaitoro, G., (2024). Corporate social responsibility practices in the Nigerian oil industry: New legal direction and the implications for reporting. In: Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure in Developing and Emerging Economies Institutional, Governance and Regulatory Issues. Editors: Nwagbara, U., Idowu, SO. and Alhassan, Y., . Springer. 3- 20. 978-3-031-61976-2
Nwoke, U., (2021). Neoliberal Lock-in and the New Constitutionalism in Nigeria’s Political Economy. In: Law, Democracy and Development: Essays for the 60th Anniversary of the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Editors: Enemo, IP., Ezeilo, JN., Nwatu, SI. and Ukwueze, FO., . SNAAP Press Ltd. 978-978-910-596-0
Grants and funding
2024
The Role of Local Informal Institutions in the Implementation of Effective Corporate Social Responsibility Policies in Nigeria
British Academy
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