Samuel Samiái Andrews.

Professor, University of Gondar

Professor Samuel Samiai Andrews teaches Intellectual Property law and other law subjects as a faculty of the Al Yamamah University College of Law in Al Khobar, Eastern Province of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was until Spring of 2023 in the faculty of the College of Law, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University as an Assistant Professor. He speaks English, Yoruba, and Ibibio fluently. He is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from Suffolk University Law School Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2018). He holds an LL.M degree in Intellectual Property Law & Policy from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2008). He also holds another LL.M degree in International Law & Jurisprudence (2000) and an LL. B (Honors) degree (1989), all from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a Barrister-at-law (BL) (1990) diploma from the Nigerian law School, Lagos, and a practicing license from the Supreme Court of Nigeria to practice law in the entire federation of Nigeria. He is a USA Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholar.

He has extensive teaching and professional practice experience as an international lawyer and an academic. Before venturing formally into academia, he founded his law firm in 1995, Samuel Andrews & Co, which later merged with another firm to form a partnership, ZFC Law Firm and rose to be its managing partner and chief executive, a successful mid-size law firm. He principally practiced law as a corporate-commercial attorney in the banking-financial services sector, in the area of intellectual property law, corporations-charities organizations law, public interest and constitutional rights, capital market-securities law and employment-labor rights in the oil and gas industries. He performed several pro bono legal work as part of his community service.

His teaching experiences spread across the graduate and undergraduate levels of universities in North America, Europe, and Africa. His teaching areas of specialty include intellectual property law, international Law, legal protection for creative industries particularly the film industries, commercial law, international trade law and, law & culture, criminal justice and cybercriminology. His research interests include International intellectual property rights, Law, culture & technology, Geographical indications, international human rights, international humanitarian law, Law curriculum development, Artificial intelligence, and creative rights. He sits on the editorial board of reputable scholarly journals and publications.

He has published numerous peer reviewed papers in reputable academic journals and publications around intellectual property law particularly on the relevance of the legal protection of people’s culture and creative rights in the entertainment industries. He has presented papers extensively in international academic conferences in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe. He seeks to collaborate with other faculties and students to make his primary educational institution one of the great centers of academic excellence in legal studies globally and to produce subject matter experts for achieving the developmental visions of the region and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

He submitted a technical Paper titled, “Digital Copyright and Draft Nigerian Copyright Bill” (Feb. 10, 2016), A Commentary- to the Committee of Nigerian Copyright Commission on the Draft Copyright Bill (2015) (as part of amendment processes to Nigeria’s Copyright Laws) (currently, Copyright Act 2022 (Nigeria), that received a recorded commendation from the Nigerian Copyright Commission.

In April 2023, his scholarly work on the current copyright law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first of its kind on the subject, has been published as ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space-The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials, edited by Indranath Gupta & Ors. Publisher: Springer (2023) (book chapter), cited as, [Andrews, S.S. (2023). ‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space: the Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in: Gupta, I. (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1144-6_9-1]. He is a practicing Licensed lawyer and academic.

Experience

2018–present

Adjunct Professor, Albany State University, Albany. Georgia. USA.
2023–present

Assistant Professor, Al Yamamah University, Al Khobar. Saudi Arabia.
2019–2023

Professor, University of Gondar
2012–2023

Assistant Professor, Prince Mohhamad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia

Education

2018

Suffolk University Law School, Boston. MA. USA, Doctor of Juridical Science, SJD.
2008

Unversity of Washington, School of Law, Seattle. Washington.USA, LL.M (Intellectual Propriety Law & Policy
2000

University of Uyo, Uyo. Nigeria, LL.M (Jurisprudence & International Law)
1990

Nigerian Law School. Victoria Island, Lagos, BL (Law)
1989

University of Uyo, Uyo. Nigeria, LL.B (hons), Law

Publications

2023

‘Copyright Originality in the Digital Space: the Saudi Arabia’s Creatives’ in: Gupta, I. (eds) Handbook on Originality in Copyright. Springer, Singapore, Handbook on Originality in Copyright. Springer, Singapore.
2022

• Developing a Copyright Curriculum for Nigerian Universities for the Creative Digital Space, GRUR Journal of European International IP Law. volume 71 (4) 322-334
2022

• Reconceptualizing Alternative Dispute Resolution Ecosystem in the Digital Era: Saudi Arabia’s Online Transactional Engagements, International Journal of Development and Conflict, vol. 12 issue 2, pp. 173-181.
2021

Digital Strategies in Restorative and Rehabilitative Perspectives of Criminal Justice Reform Era, Albany State University Criminal Justice Journal
2020

Creative disruptions and digital copyright regime of an African film industry: Nollywood's present continuous path, WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers (Special Edition) pp 170-194
2020

Rethinking Transactional Jurisprudence in Copyright: Nigeria’s Unconscious Edge, Lagos State University Law Journal (Nigeria)
2019

Balancing Restorative Justice and Indigenous Traditional Systems in Criminal Justice, SSRN
2019

● Reforming Copyright Law for A Developing Africa, 66 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 1 (2018)
2019

Globalization, Sovereignty and Ethiopia in the Age of IP Creative Jurisprudence, , 4 International Journal of Ethiopian Legal Studies (IJELS) 120-138. (2019).
2018

● Reconceptualizing International Copyright Law to Protect African Creative Industries, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL

Professional Memberships

Copyright Society of U.S.A.
Nigerian Bar Association
● American Intellectual Property Law Association
● Capital Market Solicitors Association of Nigeria
Intellectual Property & Innovation Researchers of Asia
International Association for the Advancement of the Teaching & Research in Intellectual Property

Honours

United States Ambassador's Distinguished Scholar