Meet UNILORIN First Female Professor of Islamic Law, Prof. Azizat Omotoyosi Amoloye-Adebayo
Meet UNILORIN First Female Professor of Islamic Law, Prof. Azizat Omotoyosi Amoloye-Adebayo
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Azizat Omotoyosi Amoloye-Adebayo holds an LLB degree in Common and Islamic Law from Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto and an LLM degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She also holds a PhD degree in Sharī‘ah and International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
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She is a Professor and the Head of Department, Department of Islamic Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. She is also former Deputy Director at the University of Ilorin Consultancy Services, the Coordinator, University of Ilorin Muslim Ladies Circle and one the Vice Chairpersons of the University of Ilorin Muslim Community.
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She is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria; a Commonwealth Scholar, the Vice President of the Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows Alumni Association of Nigeria, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Nigeria, and United Kingdom; a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow of the ICLARS (August 2019 - August 2020), Utah, USA; an African Humanities Program Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (2021) and a Research Fellow, the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa (2022-2025).
Her research interests and areas of publication are Islamic law; International Human Rights Law; Human Rights violations, Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Islamic Law of Inheritance; Islamic Family Law; Issues in Law and Religion; Gender Issues in Law; and Feminist theories and Islam.
She has contributed chapters and is lead author of works in edited volumes such as – Judicial Dialogue and Human Rights, Cambridge University Press (2017), Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa, Oxford University Press (2018), Law and Religion in the Commonwealth, the Evolution of Case Law, Hart Publishing (2022) and Religion and National Security (forthcoming, 2024).
