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U
baka Ogbogu is an Associate Professor in the Faculties of Law and Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Katz Research Fellow in Health Law and Science Policy, at the University of Alberta. Dr. Ogbogu is a recipient of the Confederation of Alberta Faculties Association Distinguished Academic Early Career Award. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Toronto, a
Masters of Laws degree from the University of Alberta and undergraduate degree in law from the University of Benin, Nigeria and the Nigerian Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of health law and science policy studies, law and bioethics, legal history of science/medicine, pharmacy law and ethics and the law of torts. He previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, York and Minnesota and his
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Ubaka Ogbogu academic publications have appeared in numerous law and science journals, including Health Law Journal, Stem Cell, Nature Biotechnology, EMBO Reports, Regenerative Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canadian Pharmacists Journal.
Tell us about yourself? I am a legal academic who resides in Edmonton with my wife, Gift and our
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two daughters. Why did you study law? I never really wanted to so I don’t have a why. I kind of stumbled into it. My initial choice was Classics. Would you say black men are incentived to achieve by this community?
LadiesCorner.ca – Winter 2020
