Dr Menes Muzan

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 joining the university, 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.

His research which cut across various issues in contemporary environmental law – access and benefit sharing, biosafety regulation, public participation in environmental matters and the governance of ecological restoration – and his scholarly works have been published in high-impact law journals such as Transnational Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press), Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (Wiley & Sons), and the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (Brill). In September 2025, Dr Muzan was endorsed by the British Academy as an individual of exceptional promise considering his emerging global reputation as a potential leading scholar in environmental law.

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. Beyond his academic roles, he has been a reviewer for some law journals including Law, Environment, and Development Journal (LEAD-Journal), an open-access peer-reviewed journal and the Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy (JSDLP), published by the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES), Ae Babalola University, Nigeria.