Dr. Ezeudu earned a PhD in international law and resource trade regulation from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, an LLM in commercial law from the University of Birmingham in England, and an LLB from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria, where he topped his class. He is admitted to the Ontario and Nigerian Bars and serves as a non-practicing solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
Before joining Lakehead University, Dr. Ezeudu instructed commercial law at George Brown College’s School of Accounting and Finance in Toronto and maintained a private law practice. He completed his articles at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, focusing on corporate-commercial law, privacy law, consumer protection, and government policy. During this time, he also prosecuted offenses under Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, 2002.
Dr. Ezeudu’s research centers on natural resource governance and extractive industries, particularly mining law and policy. His interests extend to sustainable development law, business-environment interactions, resource trade regulation, transnational corporations, corporate social responsibility in extractives, and corporate-commercial law.
In 2022, Dr. Ezeudu secured an SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his study on corporate social responsibility in Canada’s mining sector. His scholarship appears in prominent journals and has been presented at international conferences in Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, published by Canada’s Grassroots Institute in Montreal.
