I am a lawyer, researcher, and writer interested in what happens when law meets technology and, more importantly, what happens when the law arrives late.
A lot of my work begins there.
I started my legal career in Nigeria, where my work has moved across litigation, corporate and regulatory advisory, data protection, consumer protection, and emerging technology. That range has shaped the way I think about legal problems. I am interested not only in what the law says, but in how rules actually operate when they encounter institutions, markets, technologies, and people.
That curiosity gradually pulled me deeper into questions about technology.
What happens when an algorithm participates in deciding who gets a job? When information collected for one purpose quietly becomes useful for another? When platforms design systems that influence how millions of people communicate, buy, work, or seek help? And when technologies evolve faster than the legal frameworks that are supposed to govern them, what should law actually do?
Those questions now sit at the centre of much of my research.
I am currently pursuing an LL.M. in Law and Technology at the University of Ottawa, where my work explores artificial intelligence, automated decision-making, privacy and data governance, digital platforms, consumer protection, and technology regulation. I am especially interested in the gap between the formal promises of law — fairness, equality, autonomy, accountability — and the way technological systems translate those promises into everyday experience.
My approach to research is also influenced by practice. Before beginning my LL.M., I spent several years working with legislation, judicial decisions, regulators, clients, businesses, and actual disputes. That experience made me suspicious of legal analysis that ends with the text of a statute. A rule may look perfectly coherent on paper and still behave very differently once it encounters a platform, an automated system, an institutional process, or an ordinary person trying to navigate it.
So I tend to work across those boundaries.
Sometimes that produces a traditional research paper. Sometimes it becomes a policy analysis, a case analysis, or a shorter commentary responding to a regulatory development. The format changes, but the underlying question is usually similar: what is the technology doing, what does the law think it is doing, and where is the gap between the two?
This website is where I bring that work together — the research I am developing, the things I have published, the questions I am still thinking through, and, occasionally, ideas that are not quite finished yet.