Felicia Nwanne Monye is a Professor of Law at the University of Nigeria. She has a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Lagos, a Master of Laws Degree from the University of Nigeria and a Doctoral Degree in Law from the University of Lagos. Professor Monye teaches the Law of Consumer Protection, Commercial Law and Carriage of Goods by Sea in the Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. She is a consumer protection advocate and has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences on the subject. She is a consultant to some international organisations on consumer protection and enjoys a good working relationship with many consumer protection agencies in Nigeria including the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). She is a Board Member of the International Association of Consumer Law, a global association of consumer law experts. She was a principal researcher in the project: “Strengthening Consumer Protection in Three West African Countries for Social and Economic Justice” conducted in collaboration with the Consumers International with support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), 2013 – 2014. She was a representative of the Consumer Stakeholder Group on the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Guidance Standard formulated by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) along with its member countries and liaison organisations. Her academic prizes and other awards include the Lebadeon Proficiency Prize (Ilesha Grammar School, Ilesha); Federal Merit Award (University of Lagos); Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Grant for Thesis Writing (Senegal); Consumer Rights Advocacy Award (conferred by the Consumer Protection Council) and Consumer Rights Protection Activities Award by the Nigerian Communications Commission. Professor Monye is a prolific writer. Her publications include: Law of Consumer Protection; Commercial Law; 59th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Nigeria; and numerous journal articles.   She was the Editor-in-Chief of The Nigerian Law Journal, a Journal of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (2011 – 2015) as well as Consumer Journal, a publication of the Consumer Awareness Organisation, Enugu. She was the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, from 2010 – 2012. She is the President of the Consumer Awareness Organisation, a voluntary consumer association dedicated to consumer awareness creation and other issues of consumer concern. She is married with children.

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