Faculty of Law

HOD's Profile

Dr. Oluwayemi Oluwadunsin OGUNKORODE

Head of Department

Dr. Oluwayemi Oluwadunsin OGUNKORODE is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. She is a legal scholar whose work sits within the precincts of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice Administration and International Commercial Arbitration.

She obtained her LL.B degree from the University of Jos in the year 2009; was called to the Nigerian Bar after graduating from the Nigerian Law School in the year 2010, and subsequently completed her LL.M from the Premier University- the University of Ibadan in the year 2015.  She later obtained her Ph.D in Law degree at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, in the year 2025. Her doctoral research, ‘Virtual Arbitration as a Mechanism for the Digitalisation of International Commercial Arbitration Proceedings’ contributes to ongoing debates on Virtual court sittings for the digital settlement of commercial transaction and investment disputes at the international sphere.

She is a prolific researcher with scholarly publications in both local and foreign journal articles, conferences, and other academic papers published by reputable publishers across the globe. Her teaching and research innovation is championed by the renewed commitment to producing upwardly mobile legal minds that are not only digitally trained, but with no mental border in the practice and application of law.

Dr. Ogunkorode combines great moral fidelity with academic savviness. She has equally served as the Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Law, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, and She is the current Faculty ICT Officer and a member of the University Senate.

She has attended several academic conferences, and she continually contributes to legal scholarship, intellectual engagement, and academic output generation within the legal education space in Nigeria and in the diaspora.