MISS SOIBI BOB-MANUEL

Biography

Soibi’s thesis employs a socio-legal method to investigate and proffer optimal pathways for encouraging and promoting effective transfer of climate change technologies to developing countries, with a focus on the path of China and Nigeria. This is because despite the recent global and multi-lateral agreements on climate change, studies have shown about 30 percent of technology transfer of clean technologies are recorded in developing countries. Soibi aims to explore the nexus between social development, protection of intellectual property rights and global response to climate change.  Other aspects of academic research which falls within the threshold of Soibi’s research interests, includes legal aspects of the transfer of low-carbon technologies, standardised protection of intellectual property rights and polycentricity of climate governance.

Soibi’s thesis is supervised by Professor Abbe Brown and Dr. Titilayo Adebola.

Before commencing her PhD, Soibi completed an LL.M in Oil and Gas Law (with Distinction) from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Her LL.M dissertation focused on the development of climate change law as a legal subject. Soibi holds an LL. B in Law from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana) where she also served as Secretary for the Law Students’ Union.  As a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), she practiced at ǼLEX Partners, Lagos, Nigeria as an associate. Her practice areas included corporate commercial, oil and gas law, intellectual property, energy and natural resources, and regulatory compliance.