Dr Nelson A. Agbor
Legal advisor
A legal scholar, human rights advocate and law educator. Dr Agbor advises Progressive Recovery Care as an organisation on legal and governance questions. This is not a clinical role, it is not part of any care pathway, and PRC does not provide legal services or legal advice to clients.
What this role is, and what it is not
Dr Agbor is an academic lawyer and consultant, not a practising solicitor or barrister, and he is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or the Bar Standards Board. He does not see clients, does not take part in assessment, treatment or care planning, and cannot give legal advice to people using PRC’s services. If you need legal advice, seek an authorised legal professional.
Qualifications
- PhD in Law, University of Plymouth
- LLM in International Human Rights Law, University of Hertfordshire
- LLB Law, University of Dschang
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- GDPR certification at Foundation and Practitioner level
- Certificate in Human Rights Education Training
- Level 3 Award in Education and Training
Teaching and research
Dr Agbor is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University and at The University of Law, Nottingham, teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate modules. He is also an Alumni Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, where he completed his doctorate.
His teaching covers constitutional law, human rights law and public law, alongside land law, equity and trusts, contract law, criminal justice and business law.
His research is grounded in international human rights law and humanitarian law, and examines how law, politics and power interact in crisis-affected regions. His doctoral work studied the political factors that undermine legal protection of human rights, using the Anglophone conflict in Cameroon as a case study. He has also written on asylum and migration law, children’s rights in conflict, and international responses to armed conflict.
Further reading
Dr Agbor publishes his research and commentary at Diary of a Legal Academic (opens in a new tab). The views expressed there are his own and are not PRC’s.