Essential details

Position

Lecturer

Role

Undergraduate Admissions Team

Extension

5244

Room number

445

Email

R.Ako@hull.ac.uk  

Qualifications

LLB BL LLM MPHIL (Nigeria), PhD (Kent)

Profile

Rhuks Temitope Ako qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1999. He obtained his PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK and was a 2010 Volkswagen ‘Our Common Future’ Fellow. His research interests include environmental justice, minority rights, environmental human rights and public participation law, usually in relation to, but not exclusively to, Nigeria’s oil industry. Rhuks has published widely in the above areas. He convenes the Environmental Justice module at postgraduate level.

Modules Taught

Undergraduate

• Tort, Contract, Trusts and Environmental Law

Postgraduate

• Environmental Law
• Environmental Justice

Research Interests

Environmental human rights, public participation law, minority rights and Nigeria’s oil industry

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Ako, R. T., ‘Enforcing Environmental Rights under Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution: The Localisation of Human Rights in the Niger Delta Region’, in Koen de Feyter ed., The Local Relevance of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
• Ako, R. T., ‘The Responsibility to Prevent Conflicts under R2P: the Nigeria-Bakassi Situation’ in R. Thakur, V. Popovski and W. Kemp eds., Blood and Borders: The Responsibility to Protect and the Problem of the Kin State (United Nations University Press, 2011), 208 -228.
• Ako, R. T., ‘Resource Exploitation and Environmental Justice in Developing Countries: The Nigerian Experience’ in F. Botchway ed., Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development (Edward Elgar, 2011), 72-104.
• Ako, R. T. and Uddin, N., ‘Governance and Resource Management’ in F. Botchway ed., Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development (Edward Elgar, 2011), 21-48.
• Ako, R. T., ‘The Struggle for Resource Control and Violence in the Niger Delta’ in C. Obi and S. Aas Rustad eds., Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence (Zed Books, 2011), 42-54.
• Adedeji, A. A. and Ako, R. T.: “Legal Response to the Control and Management of Oil Pollution in Nigeria” in A. Onibokun and A. O. Popoola eds., Current Perspectives in Law, Justice and Development (Demm-Ditt Projects, 2007), 915-949.
• Adedeji, A. A. and Ako, R. T. ‘Legal Response to the Control and Management of Water Pollution in Nigeria’, in I. O. Olatubosun, ed., Legal Issues for Contemporary Justice in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Justice M. O. Onalaja (Department of Jurisprudence and Private Law and Equity Chambers, Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, 2007), 130- 154.
•  Ako, R. T.: “Character Evidence” in A. Akintola and A. Adedeji (eds.) Nigerian Law of Evidence: A book of Readings in Honour of Oluwarotimi O. Akeredolu SAN, (Ibadan, University Press PLC, 2006), 213-230.
•  Ako, R. T.: “Theoretical Issues and the New Definition of Development”, In F. E. Iyoha et. al. (eds), Re-Thinking Governance And Development In The 21st Century (Benin: Institute of Governance and Development, 2004) 19-26.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Ako, R. T., ‘Re-Defining Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) In Nigeria’s Post-Amnesty Oil’, (2012) 3 African Journal of Economic and Management Studies (Special Issue on CSR in Africa), 9-22.
• Adedeji, A., Ako, R. T., and Ogunleye, T., ‘Towards the Sustainable Environmental Management of Nigeria’s Coastal Region’ (2011) 1 NIALS Journal of Environmental Law 296-308.
• Ako, R. T., ‘Substantive Injustice: Oil-Related Regulations and Environmental Injustice in Nigeria’, (IUCN Rights Based Approach to Conservation Publications) https://community.iucn.org/rba1/resources/Pages/Publications.aspx
• Ako, R. T., ‘The Judicial Recognition and Enforcement of the Right to Environment: Differing Perspectives from Nigeria and India’, (2010) 3 NUJS Law Review, 423-445.
• Ako, R. T. and Oyelade O., ‘The Role of National Legislation in Improving Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria’ (2010) 36 Indian Socio-Legal Journal 1, 67-80.
• Ako, R. T., “Nigeria’s Land Use Act: An Anti-Thesis to Environmental Justice”, (2009) 53 Journal of African Law 2, 289–304.
• Ako,R. T., Obokoh, L. O. and Okonmah, P., ‘Forging Peaceful Relationships between Oil-Companies and Host-Communities in Nigeria’s Delta Region: A Stakeholder’s Perspective to Corporate Social Responsibility’, (2009) 3 Journal of Enterprising Communities 2, 205-216.
• Ako, R. T. and Okonmah P.: ‘Minority Rights Issues in Nigeria: A Theoretical Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Conflicts in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta Region’, (2009) 16 International Journal on Minority and group Rights 1, 53-65.
• Ako, R. T., Okonmah, P. and Ogunleye, T. ‘The Niger Delta Crisis: A Social Justice Approach to the Analysis of Two Conflict Eras’, (2009) 11 Journal of African Development 2, 105-122.
• Ako, R. T., Adedeji, A. A. and Coker, S. A., ‘Resolving Legislative Lapses through Contemporary Environmental protection Paradigms: A Case study of Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region’, (2007) 47 The Indian Journal of International Law, 432-450.
• Ako, R. T.: ‘Ensuring Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment of Development Projects in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: A Veritable Tool for Sustainable Development’, (2006) 3 Environtropica, 1 & 2, 1-15.
• Ako, R. T.: ‘Mediation as a Conflict Resolution Mechanism in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria’, (2006) 3 Ife Juris Review 1, 58-76.
• Akintola, A. L. and Ako R. T.: ‘Corruption and Development in Nigeria: The Role of Oil’, (2005) Ife Social Sciences Review Special Edition, 203-215. 
•  Ako, R. T.: ‘Entrenching the Right to Environment into Nigeria’s Constitution’, (2005) 1 Ikeja Bar Journal 1, 118-126.
• Ako, R.T., ‘Issues on Environmental Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Niger Delta’, (2005) 15 Lesotho Law Journal 1, 1-31.
• Adedeji, A. A. and Ako, R. T.: ‘Hindrances to Effective Legal Response to the Problem of Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta’, (2005) 5 UNIZIK Law Journal 1, 415-439
• Ako, R. T.: ‘Defining Sustainable Development and the Issue of Third Generation Rights in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria’, (2004) 1 Ife Juris Review1, 142-171.
• Adedeji, A. A. and Ako, R. T.: ‘Hindrances to the Effective Legal Response to the Problem of Environmental Degradation in Nigeria’, (2004) 4 Ibadan Bar Journal 1, 12-23.