Ireh Iyioha

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Irehobhude O. Iyioha ('Ireh Iyioha'), LLB (Hons), BL, LLM, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria and an Adjunct Professor at the John Dossetor Centre for Health Ethics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. She held the position of Associate Adjunct Professor at the Centre from 2017 to 2022. She has taught at the Faculties of Law at Western University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Alberta, Canada and currently teaches and supervises students at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in the Professional Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program. She is the Founder and Director of the Black Professionals Leadership Program (BPL)—an educational support and leadership training program for Black students at the University of Victoria. Ireh is editor and co-editor of two books –   Women's Health and the Limits of Law: Domestic and International Perspectives , 1st Edition (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020) and   Comparative Health Law and Policy: Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law  (London: Ashgate, 2015) (with R. N. Nwabueze). She was a 2021 Recipient of a Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Law for the Future Fund Grant (LFFF) to study inequality and the limits of pandemic law and policy, and currently holds a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for a multi-country study of populism and obedience to law in the context of public health restrictions.

 

Selected Publications

Iyioha, I. O. (2020). Women’s Health and the Limits of Law: Domestic and International Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Iyioha, I. O. &  Nwabueze, R. N. (Eds) (2015). Comparative Health Law and Policy: Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law. London: Ashgate.