Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee holds a multidisciplinary PhD in international human rights law, legal information technology (aspects of legal informatics), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights and LLM in cross-border comparative analysis of free access to public legal information. He is a chief lecturer of law (equivalent of associate professor of law) and a former legal research national consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the 1998 PCASED project that provided the juridical foundations for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) 1998 Moratorium which culminated in a regional multilateral treaty: ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and other Related Matters 2006. He invented the human rights-based public access-adequate huricompatisation model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law and pioneered the global advocacy of the formal universal recognition of the right of free access to public legal information as a substantive or stand-alone human right in 2017 (https://publiclegalinformation.com).
His Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series consists of 22 modern academic article-style independent but interconnected chapters of the following four books:
- The New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information and its Proposed United Nations Convention (Volume 1 ISBN 9789083108520);
- The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2 ISBN 9789083108568);
- Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (Volume 3 ISBN 9789083108513); and
- A Model Empirical Study of the State of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (Volume 4 ISBN 9789083108551).
Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing website (https://koinonialegal.com) contains details of the availability of these books and valuable legal information resources.
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