Menes Muzan

Dr Menes Muzan

Lecturer in Law

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • The Law School

Qualifications

  • LLB
  • LLM (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Birmingham)
  • PGCert (University of Hull)

Summary

Dr Menes Muzan joined the University of Hull in January 2023 as a Lecturer in Law and is currently the Graduate Research Director (GRD) in the Law School. Before that, he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Winchester, and was previously a Lecturer in Law at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where he also worked as a Research Editor for the UNIPORT Journal of Public Law. Dr Muzan completed his PhD in environmental law at the University of Birmingham and obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Hull. Before that, he obtained an LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and an LLB from Rivers State University, Nigeria.

Dr Muzan's research interests span domestic, international, and transnational environmental law. His scholarly works cut across various issues in contemporary environmental law, including access and benefit sharing, biosafety regulation, public participation in environmental matters and the governance of ecological restoration, particularly in resource-producing developing countries. His scholarly pursuits are evident in his publications in high-impact law journals such as Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press), Griffith Law Review (Taylor & Francis), Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (Wiley & Sons), and the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill).

Dr Muzan is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), United Kingdom and a member of several professional associations and learned societies, including the Association of Law Teachers (ALT), the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (IUCN-WCEL). Beyond his academic roles, he has been a reviewer for the Law, Environment, and Development Journal (LEAD-Journal), an open-access peer-reviewed journal. His expertise and insights, which he brings to the LLM in Global Sustainability and the Law (GSL) pathway, are invaluable and further demonstrate his commitment to advancing environmental law scholarship.

Undergraduate:

- Systems of Justice (441292)

- Introduction to Law and its study (441294)

- LLB Dissertation (661811)

Postgraduate:

- Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (772155)

- LLM Dissertation (700259)

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

The Emerging Legal Framework for Ecological Restoration under International Environmental Law

Nsoh, W., & Muzan, M. (2024). The Emerging Legal Framework for Ecological Restoration under International Environmental Law. In R. C. Brears, & J. Lindley (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on Environmental Policy and Law. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30231-2

Public Participation and Socio-economic Justice in Eco-restoration Law and Governance: The UN Environment–Ogoniland Case Study

Etemire, U., & Muzan, M. (2019). Public Participation and Socio-economic Justice in Eco-restoration Law and Governance: The UN Environment–Ogoniland Case Study. In A. Akhtar-Khavari, & B. J. Richardson (Eds.), Ecological Restoration Law: Concepts and Case Studies (192-213). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315

Journal Article

Ecological Restoration in International Environmental Law, edited by Anastasia Telesetsky, An Cliquet and Afshin Akhtar-Khavari

Muzan, M. A. (2020). Ecological Restoration in International Environmental Law, edited by Anastasia Telesetsky, An Cliquet and Afshin Akhtar-Khavari. Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, 4(1), 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1163/24686042-12340053

Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law (Volume IV, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law), edited by LeRoy C. Paddock, David L. Markell and Nicholas S. Bryner Edward Elgar, 2017, 288 pp., £121.50 hb, ISBN 9781783477678

Muzan, M. A. (2019). Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law (Volume IV, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law), edited by LeRoy C. Paddock, David L. Markell and Nicholas S. Bryner Edward Elgar, 2017, 288 pp., £121.50 hb, ISBN 9781783477678. Transnational Environmental Law, 8(1), 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2047102519000037

Law and Practice on Public Participation in Environmental Matters: The Nigerian Example in Transnational Comparative Perspective by UzuazoEtemire Published by Routledge, 2016, 244 pp., £29.59, paperback.

Muzan, M. A. (2018). Law and Practice on Public Participation in Environmental Matters: The Nigerian Example in Transnational Comparative Perspective by UzuazoEtemire Published by Routledge, 2016, 244 pp., £29.59, paperback. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law, 27(3), 348-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12260

Research interests

Environmental Law

International Environmental Law

Nigerian and Comparative Environmental Law

Postgraduate supervision

Environmental Law

International environmental law

Comparative environmental law

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