Anthony Adeyemi Adeogun

Professor Anthony Adeyemi Adeogun
Born on 1 March 1935 at Igbajo, Osun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Distinguished professor emeritus of commercial and industrial Law; Deputy Vice Chancellor-University of Lagos; International labour law expert and successful legal practitioner.
Family Background
Son of Phillip Bamgbose and Theresa Fatola Adeogun of Ajale Compound Igbajo, Osun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Husband to Margaret Amba Ayinke Adeogun (Nee Williams). Father to Charles A Adeogun-Phillips the internationally renowned genocide and war crimes prosecutor, senior UN lawyer and founder, Grandfather to 'Jimi, Aita and Aima Adeogun-Phillips.
Education
Read law at the University of Manchester where he graduated in 1963. In May 1964, he attended the Inns of Court Law School, following which he qualified as a Barrister, having been admitted to Lincoln’s Inn. He was a Federal Government Scholar at the University of London between 1965 and 1967 from where he obtained his LL.M and PhD degrees. His area of specialisation was employment and labour law.
Legal Career
Was appointed Professor of Commercial Law in October 1979 having joined the University of Lagos as lecturer in 1967. At various times during his brilliant academic career, he headed the Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, was Dean, Faculty of Law and for four years, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the said university. It is almost inevitable that any law graduate from the prestigious law faculty at the University of Lagos between 1970 and 2005 would not have passed through his tutelage.
Professor Adeogun’s enrollment as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1972, flagged of his career as a legal practitioner. Prior to his enrollment at the Nigerian Bar, he again had distinguished himself at the Nigerian Law School by emerging as the Sir Lionel Brett Prizeman in criminal procedure. In 1975, he established the legal practice of Anthony A. Adeogun and Company.
Apart from practicing, teaching and researching the law, Anthony Adeogun also served the Nigerian Nation, sovereign states and international organizations in different capacities. He was the General Editor of the Nigerian Journal of Contemporary Law between 1980 and 1989, a member of the University of Ibadan Law Review in 1985 and served as a member of Editorial Board of Nigerian Current Law Review published by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He was at various times External Examiner and Assessor to Universities of Ibadan, Benin, Buea in Western Cameroon, Legon in Ghana and the Australian National University in Canberra Australia.
An accomplished labour and commercial law expert, Anthony Adeogun served in several capacities outside academic and legal practice community. In 1976, he was a member of the four-man Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the activities of Trade Unions in Nigeria. Between 1976 and 1979 he was a member of the newly established Industrial Arbitration panel which settles trade disputes between employers and employees as well as Inter and Intra Trade Union disputes.
He served as a member of the Consultative Assembly on the Reform of Nigeria Company Law between June and September 1988. The Assembly produced the new draft Companies Decree which was promulgated into Law as The Companies and Allied Matters Act No. 1 of 1990.
In 1991, he was appointed by the International Labour Organisation of the United Nations (ILO) and the Government of Sierra Leone as an expert on revision and reform of Labour Laws of Sierra Leone. In 1994, following the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa, he was again appointed by the International Labour Organization of the United Nations (ILO) and the Government of South Africa as one of the three international experts to advice on the revision/reform of the Labour Laws of South Africa.
An accomplished scholar, Professor Adeogun, authored many articles and edited journals and books. His inaugural lecture delivered in 1986 titled “From Contract to Status, in Quest for Security” remains the guiding light on employment contract in Nigeria.
Following his retirement on 1 March 2001, Anthony Adeogun remained active in academics and legal practice, until his death on 13 May 2005.

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