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Olubunmi Onafuwa

Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Law, University of East London

Dr Onafuwa is the Programme Leader for LLB (Law), the Project Lead and Interim Deputy Head for the Department of Law, Justice and Policing.

Her areas of academic interest include human rights law, behavioural & social methods, socio-legal research, access to justice/legal aid via alternative judicial institutions in African countries e.g. customary court systems.

Dr Onafuwa also researchers the effects of cuts to legal aid on service providers in England and Wales, time and stress management in the Nigerian judiciary and implications for access to justice. Customary law and succession in Nigeria. Including other crucial matters relating to law and society and law and development e.g., fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria and the unfettered police powers in the UK.