Olasupo Shasore

Olasupo Shasore, SAN is a legal practitioner.He is a partner in the law firm of ALP NG & Co, a leading commercial law firm in Nigeria. He was Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State from 2007 – 2011. Shasore is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is the author of the book, A Platter of Gold. He was called to the Nigerian Bar on 22 October 1987; Became a member of the Inner Bar and conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2006; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom) 2007; Former member of the Body of Benchers of Nigeria; Notary Public for Nigeria; President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA) (until January 2016); Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission (until 2015); Member/Secretary of the Presidential Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce (2013); Led Lagos State delegates at National Constitutional conference (2014). He is an historian and author, his recent books include Ministering Justice ‘Administration of Justice in Nigeria’ (Qbooks 2019); Platter of Gold: ‘Making Nigeria’ (2016); Possessed – A History of Law & Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos (2014); Commercial Arbitration – Arbitration Law & International Practice in Nigeria (Lexis Nexis 2011) Johnson and Shasore;; Jurisdiction & Sovereign Immunity in Nigerian Commercial Law (Practice and textbook) (2007 NIIA).