Personal Statement
Folashade Adeyemo joined the School of Law and Social Justice in 2023 as a Senior Lecturer in Law and as of September 2024, was appointed as the Associate Dean for Globalisation. Prior to joining Liverpool, Fola taught at Kingston University and most recently, at the University of Reading, where she held several leadership positions. These include leading as the Director of Admissions and as an integral member of the School's internationalisation team; leading and initiating initiatives to improve admission numbers to the School of Law and leading partnerships conversations with universities, internationally. She was also a member of the School Management Committee and an elected member of the School Research Committee.

Fola is a leading academic in banking regulation, whistleblower protection, and financial and economic crime. Her interest in these areas is predominantly from the global south perspective. She is also the founder of the Global South Dialogue on Economic Crime, which is an interdisciplinary platform with the objective of advancing dialogue, research, and capacity on economic crime. The network has successfully hosted several well attended webinars, including Unexplained Wealth: A Global Perspective; Effectiveness of Whistleblowing Frameworks in Africa; Financial Action Task Force Compliant Countries, Lessons for Non-Compliant Jurisdictions. The network had its inaugural conference in August 2021, supported and hosted by Aston University. For more information about the network, and our past/future events, please see here.

She holds an LLB, LLM, and Ph.D., from the University of Westminster and Brunel University, London. She is also a Barrister, called to the Nigerian Bar.

Research Overview
Fola's research focuses on banking regulation, financial and economic crime, and whistleblower protection in Africa, with a primary emphasis on Nigeria and comparative perspectives from England & Wales and Kenya. Her work examines how legal and regulatory institutions shape accountability, enforcement capacity, and economic governance in emerging economies, combining doctrinal analysis with institutional and policy-oriented approaches.

Her research programme is structured as a coherent trilogy. Her first monograph, Banking Regulation in Africa: The Case of Nigeria and Other Emerging Economies (Routledge, 2021), analyses the legal architecture of banking regulation in Nigeria and other emerging economies. Her second monograph, Illicit Enrichment and Unexplained Wealth in Africa (forthcoming, Routledge 2026), examines asset recovery and anti-corruption enforcement in Nigeria and Kenya through a governance lens. Her third monograph, on whistleblower protection (forthcoming 2027), focuses on the role of information and reporting regimes in strengthening financial crime enforcement.
She has published widely in leading commercial law journals, including the Journal of Business Law, and her work on whistleblower protection has been cited in UK parliamentary policy discussions. She is also an invited member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Criminology.

She holds an LLB, LLM, and PhD from the University of Westminster and Brunel University, London, and is a Barrister, called to the Nigerian Bar.

Research Supervision:
Fola is an experienced external Ph.D. examiner, having examined in South Africa, Nigeria, as well as in England & Wales. She is happy to receive proposals from prospective doctoral students with an interest in banking and financial regulation as well as financial and economic crime.