Komiti, Mr. Peter Nyeronvwo

Mr. Peter Nyeronvwo Komiti is a lawyer, early career researcher, and a multiple award-winning Commonwealth Scholar with specialisation in International Environmental Law and International Human Rights Law, particularly their interplay in the context of Climate Change Laws/litigation, Armed Conflict and Counter-terrorism Laws. He holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law with a Commonwealth scholarship from Brunel University London, an LLB (Hons) with a Dean’s Excellence Award from the University of Benin, Nigeria, and a BL with UNIBEN Alumni Scholarship from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. He has undergone human rights training at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he has obtained two Advanced Human Rights Certificates in Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in Africa and Policing and Vulnerability in Africa, respectively. In 2019, Peter was called to the Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Since then, he has litigated diverse human rights and environmental cases across all cadres of courts in Nigeria, including an ongoing litigation against three Chinese companies for alleged violation of rural farmers’ ecological and human rights to land and means of livelihood.

His research interests and publications animated by the never-again doctrine lie in the intersections of international environmental law, international human rights law, international criminal law and international humanitarian law. He is a member of several professional bodies, including the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Litigants for Strengthening of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Protective Mandate, Institute of Transnational Arbitration, and the Nigerian Bar Association. In 2022, Peter was enlisted as a Global South Climate Expert by the Oxford-Carbon Brief Global South Climate database. With this platform, he advises on the human rights implications of climate finance projects in the Global South.

Affiliation

Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
Email: peterkomiti@gmail.com, peterkomiti@nigerinabar.ng
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5569-8844

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International Trade and Environmental Protection: Revisiting David Hunter’s “Invisible Elbow Destroying the Common Goods Created by an Invisible Hand”

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