Bello Mohammed Magaji

Dr. Bello Mohammed Magaji is an Associate Professor of Law and Interim Dean, School of Law. He is a Senior Lawyer of 33 years standing, with a Law doctorate, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow with multi-diverse degrees in Criminology, Education, and Public Administration. He has been teaching law for over 25 years in Nigeria and some African countries.

He obtained his LL.B (Hons) from Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto in 1989, called to the Bar as a Barrister-at-Law (BL) from the Nigeria Law School Lagos in 1990. He obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M) and Doctoral Law Degree (PhD) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 2008 and 2017 respectively and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Institute of Advance Studies in collaboration with Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife in 2020.

He began his academic career in Federal Polytechnic Kaduna where he taught law for 15 years and rose from Lecturer III to Senior Law Lecturer. He proceeded to the Nigeria Police Academy Wudil, Kano as a pioneer Law Lecturer and Faculty of Law Examination Officer. In 2016 he left the shores of Nigeria to Uganda in East Africa to continue his academic career firstly at Kampala International University as Senior Law Lecturer and Associate Dean Research. He was a visiting Law Lecturer at Nkumba University Entebbe, Uganda. He later joined the academic staff of the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) where he rose to the position of the Dean, Faculty of Law, the position he held till he returned to Nigeria and joined American University of Nigeria. While in Kaduna Polytechnic he conducted 3 research which were funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). Again in Uganda, he won a research grant from the Islamic Development Bank under the auspices of the Research and Coordination Committee of the Islamic University in Uganda. He authored and published 10 standard law books. Some of his titles include Electoral Law and Elections in Nigeria (Lambert 2017), Selected Themes on Nigerian Labor Law (2010), Hotel and Catering Law in Nigeria: An Introduction (2005), Banking Laws Regulation and Negotiable Instruments in Uganda: A Tutorial Approach (2020) Selected Themes on Industrial and Labor Laws (co-author 2014) Principles of Nigerian Law (2001), Banking Laws, and Regulations in Nigeria Selected Themes (2024). He has to his credit 35 academic papers published in reputable international and national academic journals. See profile on