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Dr Sunday Kenechukwu Agwu is a Nigerian lawyer, legal academic and justice reform practitioner based in Abuja. He is Principal Partner at ASK Law Partners and Lecturer and Clinical Law Supervisor at the Faculty of Law, Baze University, where he teaches Human Rights Law, Criminal Law, Health Law, Evidence and International Arbitration, and supervises the Human Rights Law Clinic. He is the Founding Director of the Centre for Justice Education and Development (CJED) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Justice Research Institute (JRI). His work spans clinical legal education, constitutional and public law, international law, access to justice and gender justice. He previously led multi-state access-to-justice programmes at the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC) and coordinated clinical legal education projects with NULAI Nigeria. Kene holds a PhD in Law from Baze University, with a thesis on social justice and clinical legal education, as well as an LLM, LLB and PGDE. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators. He serves as Secretary of the IBA Human Rights Law Committee.