Dr Mabel Otivbo Izzi

Mabel Otivbo Izzi

CURRENT RANK: Associate Professor of Gender Law and Human Rights

Dr Mabel Otivbo Izzi is a Reader in the Department of Private and Property Law, Faculty of Law, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt. She holds an LL.B (Hons) degree, LL.M and a PhD in Law. She is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She was formerly the Head of the Department of Public Law as well as Department of Private and Property Law. In addition, she served as Faculty Examination Officer and Faculty of Law Post Graduate Coordinator.

Over the years she has taught several courses including Legal Method, Law of Torts, Law and Practice of Meetings, Maritime Law, Shipping Law, Family Law, Women and the Law. She has to her credit several chapters in Law Textbooks and over 50 papers in reputable law journals. Her areas of interest and research cuts across Human Rights, Gender law, Child Rights, Minority Rights Protection, Medical law, Law of Torts, Family Law and Customary Law. She belongs to many professional bodies including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)and Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT). She has supervised numerous student projects, dissertations and PhD thesis.

She can be reached at izzi.mabel@ust.edu.ng