Dr Nkem Adeleye

Nkem Adeleye

Senior Lecturer in Law

Institute of Arts and Humanities

School of Law

Contact Details

email: n.adeleye@worc.ac.uk

Dr. Nkem Adeleye is a Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Worcester Law School. She has an LLB (Hons), an LLM in International Human Rights and for her PhD thesis, she conducted a comparative study on the prevalence of the death row phenomenon in the USA and Japan. She has previously worked in immigration law as a Legal Representative and as part of her LLM programme she worked as an intern with the Southern Centre for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. She has over 17 years experience in teaching and research in the higher education sector. Her research interests include the death row phenomenon, international human rights, prisoners’ rights and modern slavery. She has expertise in teaching a wide range of core and optional law modules like equity and trusts, tort law, medical law, public law, international human rights, dispute resolution, commercial law, company law and English legal system.

Qualifications

  • LLB (Bachelor of Laws)
  • LLM (Master of Laws) in International Human Rights
  • PhD thesis on the prevalence of the death row phenomenon in the USA and Japan.
  • PgCert in Learning and Teaching in HE

Teaching Interests

  • Equity and and the Law of Trusts
  • Tort Law
  • Medical Law
  • Public Law
  • International Human Rights
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Research Methods
  • Commercial Law
  • Company Law
  • English Legal System

Research Interests

  • Death Row Phenomenon
  • International Human Rights
  • Prisoners Rights
  • Tort Law

Recent Publications

Adeleye N, An inmate’s journey on death row, (forthcoming) December 2024

Adeleye, N. The Jurisprudence of the death row phenomenon, 58 San Diego Law Review (2022)

Pepple. D and Adeleye. N (2020). Managing disciplinary and grievance cost in Pepple, D. G. and Zhang. C. (Eds.) Managerial and Financial Aspects of HRM (1st ed.) Emerald Publishing Group (2020)

Nkem Adeleye, Anne Richardson Oakes & Julian Killingley, California’s Civil Grand Juries and Prison Conditions 2007-17, 57 San Diego L. Rev 3, (2020)

Hugh Koch & Nkem Adeleye Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder–Contemporary Analysis of Medico-Legal Evidential Issues (2019). The Expert Witness Journal, ISSN 2397-2777.

Nkem Adeleye. Combating Modern Slavery: An Examination of Legal Frameworks and Enforcement Mechanisms on Non-state Actors (2019) in Applied Research International Conferences Proceedings, ISBN 9781789722185

Hugh Koch & Nkem Adeleye, Psychological Injury, Cyber Crime and Data Breach Damages (2019) The Expert Witness Journal, ISSN 2397-2769

Nkem Adeleye, Notes on Capital Punishment in Japan in Randall Coyne and Lyn Enzeroth, (eds) Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process, (4th ed. Carolina Academic Press 2012)

An Amicus Curiae brief, requesting a writ of certiorari for Kevin Stanford, The Unconstitutionality of Juvenile Executions in USA. (2002)

Conference Papers:

“A Shift towards a Student-Centred Approach: Managing group presentations in large workshops.” BLSS Staff Conference, 18 April 2019.

“Combating Modern Slavery: An examination of legal frameworks and enforcement strategies.” ARICON Conferences, Dubai, 20 February 2019

“The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Law of Negligence”, Society of Legal Scholars, Dublin, Ireland, 5 September 2017

“The Death Row Phenomenon in the USA and Japan: A Violation of International Human Rights Law”, British Society of Criminology Conference, Leicester 13 July 2010

“The Death Row Phenomenon: Towards Universal Abolition”, 61st United Nations Commission on Human Rights Conference, 8 April 2005

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Birmingham Law Society
  • Society of Legal Scholars
  • Midlands ARC
  • Fellow (Higher Education Academy)

External Roles

  • External Examiner, University of Essex
  • External Adviser, University of Chichester