Enyinna Sodienye Nwauche is a professor of law at the Nelson Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare, East London, where he is Head, Department of Private Law. He previously taught at Rhodes University Grahamstown, the University of Botswana and the Rivers State University of Nigeria.

He is a rated NRF scholar and has held fellowship and visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Public International Law Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Tax Competition and Intellectual Property Munich Germany, the AHRC Research Centre for IP and IT Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC).

Prof Nwauche is a member of the editorial boards of the Constitutional Court Review, Scholarly and Research Communication (SCR) and Speculum Juris. He is acting chair of the Coordinating Committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL), member of the African Union (AU) Working Group on a Model Law for the Protection of Cultural Goods and Heritage and former Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission.