ean of the Faculty of Law, Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, Prof. Sampson Ihesiene Erugo, has endowed a professorial chair in Clinical Law at the university.
According to him, “it is the duty, debt or obligation of a new professor to inaugurate his professorship and be celebrated”.
His inaugural lecture, the university’s 27th, was titled: “The Lawyer or Liar? The Myths and Realities of a Misjudged Profession”.
A 1987 graduate of Abia State University (then Imo State University), Erugo was called to the Bar in November 1988. In addition to an LLB (Hons.), he holds an LLM from the University of Lagos (1990), and a PhD of the University of Ibadan.
Erugo was in private practice till 1995 when he joined ABSU’s Faculty of Law. He is widely published in clinical legal education, human rights, access to justice and labour/industrial law.
His research interests include labour/industrial law, access to justice, justice education, public interest lawyering, global environmental problems-environmental justice, professional ethics and legal education generally.
He teaches Company Law, Labour/Industrial Law, Mediation, Public Interest Lawyering and International Humanitarian Law at undergraduate level; and Comparative Criminal Law and Environmental Law and Policy at postgraduate levels. He supervises research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including Ph.D.