Dr. Tade Oyewunmi
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Dr. Tade Oyewunmi is a lawyer, professor, and consultant with expertise in energy and natural resources law, international business law, and environmental law. He has written and led research projects regarding gas and electricity market reforms, gas flaring, hydrogen and power-to-gas, offshore wind energy development, carbon capture and storage projects, etc. He is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Law, ND, US. Before joining UND, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, where he taught courses on Energy and International Transactions, Sustainable Business Law, and Air Pollution. He was also an Assistant Professor and Senior Energy Research Fellow at Vermont Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston Law Center, and Tulane University Law School's Center for Energy Law, where he taught seminars on international energy projects.
Before joining the academia, he was a Senior Counsel practicing energy law, project finance, and dispute resolution in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Oyewunmi is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN); an associate member of the Institute for Energy Law at the Center for American and International Law; and the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation).
In 2005, he qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Nigeria and served as a legal assistant to the National Oil and Gas Sector Reform and Implementation Committee (OGIC) between 2007-2009. Dr. Oyewunmi obtained his Doctor of Laws (LL.D) in International Energy Law and Policy at the UEF School of Law, Finland; his LL.M in Oil and Gas Law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; and his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
OGEL Call for Papers: Special Issue on International Energy and Investment Law Implications of the US Inflation Reduction Act
OGEL Special Issue prepared Tade Oyewunmi and Mohamed Rali Badissy:
OGEL 2 (2022) Law and Policy for Gas Flaring in a Low-carbon Economy
OGEL Special Issue prepared Raphael J. Heffron, Penelope Crossley and Tade Oyewunmi:
OGEL 1 (2019) Energy Law and Regulation in Low-carbon and Transitional Energy Markets
OGEL Special Issue prepared Yinka Omorogbe and Tade Oyewunmi:
OGEL 1 (2017) Oil and Gas Law and Policy in West Africa