Chitzi Ogbumgbada, PhD Candidate

Chitzi Ogbumgbada

chitzi.ogbumgbada@strath.ac.uk

Biography

Chitzi Ogbumgbada is a PhD Candidate and Tutor at the School of Law, University of Strathclyde, UK. He is a recipient of the John and Anne Benson Prize 2020/21 and a nominee for the Strathclyde University Teaching Excellence Awards 2021. Chitzi played a key role in the founding of the African Natural Resources and Energy Law Network. He has also acted as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy and the Niger Delta University Law Journal. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Strathclyde Law Review as a Senior Editor. Chitzi holds an LLM in Oil and Gas Law from the University of Aberdeen and is qualified to practice Law in Nigeria.

Research

I am investigating the role of international law in promoting the concept of energy justice in relation to global renewable energy development. In recent times, renewable energy has increased in prominence. This is largely owing to the necessity to adopt energy resources that do not contribute to climate change. However, the development of renewable energy across the world has raised significant questions of justice, equity, and morality.

Energy justice – an emerging concept – has been advanced as a framework to tackle justice and equity issues in the energy sector. Energy justice seeks to apply social justice principles to energy consumption and production. My understanding of energy justice is derived from African communitarian ethics.

My research considers how the concept of energy justice could be applied to renewable energy with an aim to rectifying the problems associated with renewable energy development. I am investigating this issue from an international law perspective, where research in the area appear to be lacking.

Publications

• Chitzi Ogbumgbada, ‘Developing an Effective Legal Framework for Renewable Energy Utilization in Nigeria’ (2018) 8(3) Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review 45-52
• Chitzi Ogbumgbada, ‘The Paris Agreement: an Imperfect but Progressive Document’ (2016) 8 International Energy Law Review 320-323.

Conferences

• Operationalisation of Global Energy Justice: A Role for International Law? Paper presented at the IX Strathclyde Postgraduate Colloquium on Environmental Law and Governance held 2-3 June 2021
• Renewable Energy Promotion in the Age of Global Isolationism: The Enduring Role of International Environmental Law, Paper presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference held 3-5 April 2019 at the University of Leeds, UK
• Energy Crisis and Natural Resources Governance in Africa: Exploring the Missing Links – Organised by the African Natural Resources and Energy Law Network at the University of Aberdeen, UK on 19 June 2019.

Affiliations

• Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance
• African Natural Resources and Energy Law Network
• Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Nigerian Bar Association