A/prof Ada Ordor

Biography

Following the completion of an LLB (Hons) at the University of Jos, Nigeria in 1989, admission to the Nigerian bar in 1990, and national youth service in 1991, Ada practised in the law office of Dr. JO Ibik (Senior Advocate of Nigeria) in Enugu, Nigeria from 1992 to 1995.  She then explored the appeal of the nonprofit sector, working as a Programme Officer from 1996 to 2000, in two nonprofits, one of them a civil society organisation, African Centre for Democratic Governance, during which time she earned an LLM from the University of Nigeria.  In 2001, she was appointed to a teaching position at the Nigerian Law School, Enugu Campus, acting as Head, Department of Legal Drafting and Conveyancing from 2001 to 2003.  She was awarded a PhD at UCT in 2006 for a thesis titled The role of law in the development of the nonprofit sector in Nigeria and South Africa, and in 2007, took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Development and Labour Law, UCT.   She has held visiting fellowships at the African Gender Institute, UCT in 2000 and the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies in 2003 and is a 2009 international fellowship alumna of the American Association of University Women (AAUW).  In 2011, she was appointed Director of the newly established Centre for Comparative Law in Africa.  Ada has published on various aspects of law and development and is particularly interested in the development of the law to support supplemental, complementary and alternative development pathways in Africa.

Research Interest

Law and Regional Integration in Africa (LLM) Common Law (LLM)