Tola Amodu

Tola Amodu is an Associate Professor in Law at the Law School and an affiliate of the UEA Centre for Competition Policy where she has a specific interest in regulatory policy and practice. With regard to the latter, Tola has an interest in the interaction between regulatory theory and practice and how regulatory bodies respond over time to the changing policy contexts within which they operate. She also has a particular interest in the way in which Land Law doctrine is shaped by the climate of austerity.

Tola is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts (non-practising) who began her training in private practice and then moved to local government where she specialised in planning, housing and local government law. After completing a Masters at Cambridge University, Tola completed a PhD at the LSE looking at the how over time central government managed to control the local and lateral agreements as between developer and local authority in the town and country planning domain. On submitting her thesis Tola then worked as a member of the Government Legal Service at the Law Commission for England and Wales as part of the Public Law Team. 

Tola is a Legal Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (where she was an elected member of its governance body the General Assembly from 2017 to 2023), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has recently completed Advance HE's Aurora Management programme. She is also a member of the Association of Law Property and Society (ALPS), sitting on the Governance Board from 2022 until May 2025. She has also been a practising Solicitor for the Norfolk Community Law Clinic (NCLS) since 2023 providing pro bono advice on Housing Law, and has acted as a peer-reviewer for UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships programme for Housing Research, promoting New Academics.

Regulatory theory and practice, legal history, the application of socio-legal constructs to public and private law (in particular Land Law and Town and Country Planning Law)

Land Law, innovations in pedagogy and fostering student capacities, Contract Law.

Panel Member of the Senate Staff Student Disciplinary Committee

Member of the Humanities Faculty Appeals Committee.

Former Athena Swan Co-ordinator (Chair of the Athena Swan Committee)