Centre for Law, Technology and Society

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that PhD candidate Esther Ekong has been awarded an International Peace Scholarship by the Philanthropic Educational Organization.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that, on May 1st, 2020, Sileshi Hirko has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Law on Copyright, Development and the Human Right to Education in Ethiopia, written under the supervision by CLTS Faculty members, Professor Chidi Oguamanam and Professor Jeremy de Beer.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Dubois, a CLTS Faculty member and an Assistant Professor within the Department of Communication at the Faculty of Arts, has been awarded the Faculty of Arts’ 2020 Early Researcher of the Year Award.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that on Friday, 17th April 2020, Uchenna F. Ugwu successfully defended her PhD in Law thesis titled “Harnessing the Multilateral Patent and Plant Variety Protection Regimes to Advance Food Security: Implications of the EU-ECOWAS Economic Partnership Agreement,” and written under the supervision by CLTS Faculty members, Professor Chidi Oguamanam and Professor Jeremy de Beer.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that two of its Faculty members have received tenure and are being promoted to the rank of Associate Professors on May 1st, 2020: Dr Wolfgang Alschner, and Dr Florian Martin-Bariteau.