Foluke Adebisi

Foluke Adebisi

Professor of Law, University of Bristol

Foluke Ifejola Adebisi is a Professor at the Law School, University of Bristol. Her scholarship focuses mainly on the relationship between theories of decolonisation and how they do and can interact with legal knowledge. Thus, her scholarly work is concerned with what happens at the intersection of legal education, law, society, and a history of changing ideas of what it means to be human. She has written widely in this area.

She also edited a special issue for the Law Teacher journal on decolonisation in 2019. She found and runs Forever Africa Conference and Events (FACE), a Pan-African interdisciplinary conference. She blogs about her scholarship and pedagogy on her website ‘Foluke’s African Skies. Her monograph 'Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility' was published by Bristol University Press in of March 2023.

Taught Courses

Removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes LLM - Course

Decolonisation and Law

This course will examine the history, theories and practices of decolonisation and how they interact with the law

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Removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes Master in transitional justice - Course

Decolonisation and Law

This course will examine the history, theories and practices of decolonisation and how they interact with the law

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