Dr. Samuel W. Ugwumba is a Visiting Fellow at the Católica Global School of Law.

Samuel’s research focus is on copyright law and policy in developing countries, and particularly how a re-characterization and understanding of copyright as an institution of cultural governance within the political economy of information production can aid in examining the extent to which copyright pays equal attention—as well as the impediments preventing it from doing so—to economic and social considerations.

Samuel holds a PhD from University College Cork where he was a Law and Business scholar, and analysed in his doctoral thesis the historical, normative, and policy landscape that render copyright impervious to social concerns. His thesis was supervised by Dr. Darius Whelan and externally examined by Professor Fiona Macmillan. He also holds an LLM from Columbia Law School where he was a Burton Memorial Fellow and editor for the Columbia Business Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Race and Law.

Samuel is also a real estate developer with a significant portfolio in affordable housing. He has also produced a couple of Nollywood movies and enjoys playing tennis.