AfOx Fellow
2022
Lecturer
Department of Jurisprudence and Private Law
Obafemi Awolowo University,
Nigeria
  • Human Rights
  • Child Rights
  • Health Rights
  • Medical Law

Dr Olaitan Oluwaseyi Olusegun

Dr Olaitan Oluwaseyi Olusegun is a researcher interested in child rights, health rights and medical law. She is an AfOx Law Faculty Visiting Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Visiting Fellowship Programme.   

Olaitan is a Medical Law, Human Rights and Nigerian Legal System lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.  Her research interests are human rights, child rights, health rights and medical law.  Olaitan is passionate about mentoring the next generation of Nigerian lawyers. 

Olaitan’s research highlights the implications of traditional beliefs and practices on the health and well-being of children with disabilities (CWD). Her work focuses on evaluating the existing framework for protecting children with disabilities in Nigeria.  It appraises frameworks to safeguard CWD in other African jurisdictions while discussing the challenges and limitations of existing frameworks protecting CWD.   

While at the University of Oxford, Olaitan will be working on the project ‘Protecting Children Living with Disabilities in Africa from Harmful Traditional Practices: An Urgent Call for Implementation of the African Disability Protocol.’ Her research explores the tension between harmful traditional practices (HTPs) and the concerns of children living with disabilities in Africa. For her project: she will use interviews to understand how HTPs affect children with disabilities. Her work distinguishes the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the African Disability Protocol to discuss the challenges hindering the effectiveness of these legal frameworks in protecting children with disabilities.   

Key publications

  • Olusegun O.O and Ajigboye O. (2015) The Search for Development in Nigeria: An Examination of Legal Barriers and Challenges. Journal of Sustainable Development, Law and Policy, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti. Vol 6 No 1. Pages 146-168.
  • Olubiyi I. and Olusegun O.O. (2015) Maternity Protection of Working Women in Nigeria: A Need for Legislative Review. Benson Idahosa University Law Journal, Benin City. Vol 2 No 1. Pages 381-409.
  • Olusegun O.O. and Idowu A.A. (2016) Child Abuse in Nigeria: Dimension, Causes and Reasons for its Persistence. Child and Family Law Journal, Barry University, New-Orleans. USA. Vol 4 No 1. Pages 1-23.
  • Olusegun O.O and Olubiyi I. (2017) Implications of Genetically Modified Crops and Intellectual Property Rights on Agriculture in Developing Countries. Journal of African Law, University of London. Vol 61 No 2, Pages 253-271.
  • Olusegun O.O. (2017) Challenges of Organ Transplantation in Nigeria. International Journal of Private Law, Inderscience Publishers, UK. Vol 8 No 3/4, Pages 205-218.
  • Bamidele I. and Olusegun O.O. (2017) Mental Health Law in Nigeria: An Urgent Call for Action. Journal of Private and Business Law, Nassarawa State University, Nigeria. Vol 3 No 1, Pages 223-239.
  • Olawuyi S.D. and Olusegun O.O. (2018) Attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on Biological Diversity in Nigeria: Legal and Institutional Imperatives. Global Journal of Comparative Law, Netherlands. Vol 7 No 1. Pages 37-60.
  • Olusegun O.O and Ogunfolu A.A. (2019) Protecting Internally Displaced Children in Armed Conflicts: Nigeria in Focus, Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law Vol 9 Issue 2, pages 33-56.
  • Olusegun O.O and Olatawura O. (2021) Surrogacy Agreements and the Rights of Children in Nigeria and South Africa, Obiter, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa, Volume 42 No 1. Pages 20-38.
  • Olusegun O.O (2021) The Effect of Environmental Damage on Children in Armed Conflicts, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, University of Oregon School of Law, United States, Volume 36, Issue 1, pages 155-186.
  • Olusegun O.O. (2021). Legal Protection of Children in Non-international Armed Conflicts, African Journal of Legal Studies; 13 (4): 395-421. (The Netherlands)
  • Olusegun O.O and Oyelade O.S. (2022). Access to Justice for Nigerian Women: A Veritable Tool to Achieving Sustainable development, International Journal of Discrimination and the Law; 22(1): 4-29.