Role
Chinemelum Arinze-Umobi is lecturer at the Nottingham Law School. He is an academic and involved in research as well as being a co-module leader for Medical Law. Chinemelum is also a Module Tutor, Tort and Legal Reasoning and a Panel Member for Academic Irregularities. He is a Schools Academic Irregularities Representative and Personal Academic Tutor.
Career overview
Previously Chinemelum had worked as a law lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria for over eight years. I then went on to work for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as a Procurement Senior Manager for nearly two years.
Chinemelum has diverse teaching experience in the areas of medical law, tort and legal reasoning, human rights, contract law, consumer protection law, employer and health law etc and a renowned lawyer for over twelve years.
Research areas
Medical Law and Ethics, Human Rights Law and Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Publications
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: Tort Compensation System: Review of Negligent Health Claims in England’ (Mauritius: Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), 2019) Pp. 1-109
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: An Examination of International Environmental Law Protection”, E V Ojukwu, O O Mbanugo and C C Esimone (eds) The Pedagogue Festschrift in Honour of Professor Chukwuemeka Eleazar Mbanugo, (Awka: Dolivel Prints, 2020) Pp. 129-137
- Oluchi Aniaka, M O Izunwa and Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Examining the Consequences of Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria on Personal Rights and Commercial Transactions”, in M O Izunwa and D R Izunwa (eds) Law and Ethics of Healthcare (Interventions for Improved Medicare in Nigeria), (Onitsha: Great-M Prints & Ideas, 2016) Pp. 233-245
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and Patricia Chinweoke Arinze-Umobi: “Medical Practitioners’ Right to Embark on Strike in Nigeria vis-à-vis the Sanctity of Human Life: Case Study of Kwara State
- University Teaching Hospital” Journal of Refugee Law and International Criminal Justice (JORLAWICJ), Volume 1, No. 1, 2022, Pp. 136-150
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and Ifeanyi Tagbo Okonkwo: “Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice in Nigeria and the Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic” International Journal of Law and Clinical Legal Education (IJOLACLE), Volume 2, July, 2021, Pp. 82-85
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “The Legal Basis for Determining Patients’ Decision-Making Capacity in Medical Practice in Nigeria” Journal of Public and Private Law (JPPL), Volume 11, May, 2021, Pp. 142-165, Available online
- A C Ezeigwe and Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Media Trial and the Nigerian Society: A Study of the Social Media as an Illegitimate Means of Achieving Justice” African Journal of Constitutional and Administrative Law (AJCAL), Volume 4, September, 2020, Pp. 1-12
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “The Role of the United Nations Towards Achieving a Global Anti-Torture Culture” International Journal of Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy (IJOCLLEP), Volume 2, Issue 3, May, 2020, Pp. 22-29
- O Chiweta-Oduah, Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and C E Chukwu: “Spousal Abuses in Nigerian Marriages: A Multidisciplinary Approach” International Journal of Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy (IJOCLLEP), Volume 2, Issue 1, May, 2020, Pp. 106-112
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and G N Okeke: “Autonomy versus Paternalism in Medical Practice in Nigeria: A Socio-Legal Discourse” International Review of Law and Jurisprudence (IRLJ), Volume 2, Issue 1, April, 2020, Pp. 67-77
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and G N Okeke: “A Review of Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Patients’ Right to Informed Consent and Autonomy in Medical Practice in Nigeria” African Journal of Law and Human Rights, Volume 4, Issue 1, April, 2020, Pp. 125-136
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “The Concept of ‘Best Interests’ in the Treatment of Mentally Disordered Patients in the United Kingdom: A Legal Anatomy” International Journal of Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy (IJOCLLEP), Volume 1, Issue 2, 2019, Pp. 1-7
- Obinna Mbanugo and Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Human Rights and Duties in Nigeria: The Rule of Law” Unizik Law Journal, Volume 15, 2019, Pp. 1-21
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Pollution under International Environmental Law” American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR), Volume 3, Issue-10, October, 2019, Pp. 93-101
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Cadaveric Donation of Solid Organs and Approaches to Death: A Legal Critique” International Review of Law and Jurisprudence (IRLJ), Volume 1, No. 2, June, 2019, Pp. 100-107
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “A Critical Assessment of the Tort Compensation System Regarding Negligent Health Care Treatment in England and Wales” International Review of Law and Jurisprudence (IRLJ), Volume 1, No. 1, June, 2019, Pp. 67-72
- Obinna Mbanugo and Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Boko Haram Insurgency – Treason or Terrorism: An Analysis of the Legal Issues” African Journal of Constitutional and Administrative Law (AJCAL), Volume 2, June, 2018, Pp. 1-16
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and Obinna Mbanugo: “Permitting a Certain Level of Doping in Sports as an Alternative Strategy for Tackling Doping: A Critique” Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 9, No 2 (2018) JILJ 158-166
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi and P C Arinze-Umobi: “Understanding State’s Application of International Human Rights Law” Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 9, No. 1 (2018)
- M I Anushiem, Obinna Mbanugo and Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Criminal Trial of Judges and Imperatives for Judicial Independence” African Journal of Criminal Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 2, September, 2017, Pp. 113-126
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “An Appraisal of the Ethics of Genetic Modification of Embryos and its Implications on the Dignity of Human Species” World Association for Medical Law, WAML Journal Volume 35 No. 4, 2016, Pp. 509-524
- Chinemelum Nelson Arinze-Umobi: “Decisions Made on Behalf of those who Lack Capacity (in the Medical Context) under the English and Nigerian Legal Systems”, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 6, September, 2015, pp. 184-190