Professor Iyabode Ogunniran teaches Child Law, Gender and the Law, Constitutional Law and Law of Evidence at the undergraduate level. She also teaches Comparative Constitutional Law and Comparative Criminal Law at the postgraduate level at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. She joined the Faculty in 2003.

She has delivered several conference papers and published scholarly papers in notable national and international journals in diverse areas of Child Law. She developed the course in Child Law I and II for the Department of Public Law, University of Lagos. This was approved by the University Senate in 2020. The Department started teaching the Course with Professor Ogunniran as the lead lecturer for over five years. Topics include Children’s Rights, Child Labour, Child Adoption, Children and Climate Change etc.

Professor Ogunniran’s Expert Opinion on international child abduction in the context of family custody and access disputes w as heavily relied upon by Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Ajayi v Ajayi (2022) in declaring the children wrongfully removed and retained and sent back to Nigeria

Through the funding from the Central Research Committee (CRC) of the University of Lagos, she co-authored (with a colleague in the Sociology Department of the University of Lagos) a book/monograph titled “Child Justice Administration in Nigeria under the Child Rights Law of Lagos State” in 2016. This has been a resource book for Masters Students of the Department of Sociology and Child Law Students of the Faculty of Law.

She was the UNICEF National Consultant on Child Protection and Child Justice Reforms from 2015-2018. Though it, they developed the Cross River State Family Courts Adjudication Guideline for Child Offenders (Practice Directions) 2016; Anambra State Family Courts Adjudication Guideline for Child Offenders (Practice Directions) 2017. Also, she consults for several Ministries in Lagos State.

Professor Ogunniran was Visiting Scholar to University of Reading, United Kingdom and Centre for Child Law, University of Pretoria. She is the Executive Director, Voice of the Child Law Centre; Member, Lagos State Child Rights Implementation Committee; Member, Nigerian Association of Law Teachers; Member, Nigerian Bar Association. She is the Member of the Governing Board, McPherson University and Associate Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSAN).