Luke Eda

Background

About Luke Eda

I hold a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) Degree with “First Class Honours” from Ebonyi State University Nigeria (2013) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) Degree with “Distinction” in Public International Law from Bournemouth University UK (2017). In May 2021, I gained a PhD in Law from Bournemouth University. Earlier in 2015, I obtained my Barrister at Laws (B.L) Honours Degree from the Nigerian Law School Lagos and was consequently enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in October 2015. Before joining Bournemouth University for my postgraduate studies in September 2016, I worked with Kola Sodiya & Co, a firm of legal practitioners and consultants in Lagos Nigeria. Working with this law firm as an attorney, I acquired considerable experience in litigation (civil and criminal) and represented numerous individual/corporate clients in superior courts of records across Nigeria. I am a recipient of many prestigious academic and scholarship awards. Among them: Attorney General of Ebonyi State award for 'best graduating student' in constitutional law, Ebonyi State University (2015); Fully Funded Abakaliki Local government Area Ebonyi State Nigeria Undergraduate Scholarship award for academic excellence (2009-2013); the highly prestigious Fully Funded British Government Commonwealth Shared Scholarship award for Master’s study tenable at Bournemouth University UK (2016-2017); and a highly competitive Fully Funded Open Call PhD Studentship for my winning PhD research proposal on the subject of 'Missing Migrants' in International Law (selected out of 90 applicants) awarded by Bournemouth University (2017-2021). In February 2022, I received the UK Global Talent Recognition as an 'Emerging Global Leader in the Field of Law' following a successful endorsement by the British Academy. I am currently a Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol Law School, UK and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Before joining UWE in September 2022, I taught law at UG & PG levels at Bournemouth University. As a research-oriented academic, my research interests span the different fields of Public International Law from general principles of international law and institutions to specific doctrines of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international criminal justice, transitional justice, transnational law as well as international migration and refugee law. In May 2020, my research (jointly with Prof S-D Bachmann) was cited twice before the ICC in the Hague.