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Stanley Ibe is a Nigerian lawyer with professional and research interests in a more effective African regional human rights system; national criminal justice reform; socioeconomic rights; and legal education reform. He is also a commonwealth scholar at the University of Oxford and senior Partner in the consulting firm of Goodshare & Maxwells.

With over two decades experience in the non-profit and international development sectors, Stanley has led or co-led several initiatives aimed at empowering the poor and powerless across Africa, including successful advocacy culminating in the adoption by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights of Guidelines on Conditions of Arrest, Police Custody and Pretrial Detention; strategic litigation establishing regional precedent on the decriminalisation of petty offences at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights; and pretrial justice projects in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Stanley earned an MBA from University of Essex, UK; an LL.M from Maastricht University, The Netherlands; and LL.B from Lagos State University, Nigeria. He has been honoured with a few fellowships and awards, including the Reagan-Fascel Democracy fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Draper Hills Summer fellowship at Stanford University.

An editorial board member of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Law Journal, Stanley serves as a trustee of Hope Behind Bars Africa. He has offered his technical services to several organizations including Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape; Institute for Human Rights & Development in Africa (IHRDA); Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN); and Partners West Africa Nigeria (PWAN).