Assoc. Prof. Norman Mugarura

Dean, Faculty of Law

Prof. Norman Mugarura currently serves as the Dean at the Faculty of Law, Cavendish University Uganda (CUU) since August 2024. He has over 21 years of academic experience both from Uganda (2017 to date) and in United Kingdom (2002-2017). He has taught at Bishop Stuart University (where he served as a Dean of the Faculty of Law (2019-2021) and at Uganda Christian University. From April 2013 to 2017, he worked as honorary Senior law lecturer, Dissertation Advisor and International Money Laundering subject expert at the University of Liverpool. Norman also taught at Brunel, and Manchester Metropolitan Universities and as a visiting lecturer in other academic institutions in London. His areas of expertise in teaching and research include International Money Laundering Regulation, Commercial Contracts Law, and International Trade Law. He has supervised countless dissertations for Master of Laws (LLM) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) students throughout his extensive academic career.

Besides, academics, he has also worked as a financial law consultant at Global Action Research and Development Initiative Ltd since August 2010. Norman has published many journal papers on various aspects of financial, commercial, international and trade law. He also published a book: The Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulatory Landscape in Less Developed Countries, (Ashgate 2012): pp. 337. He is currently working on a book manuscript: Law and Markets.  Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Arabic, French and are recommended essential reading for students in many Universities, not least Sterling and George Washington Universities.

Seven of his published papers were voted for best paper awards by different editorial boards of emerald journals. These papers are: Norman Mugarura ‘Scoping the regulatory environment for harnessing normative anti-money laundering laws in LDCS’ published in Journal of Money Laundering Control, Emerald (it was voted by the editorial team as highly commended and best paper award winner published by Emerald in 2014; Norman Mugarura “Has globalisation rendered the state paradigm in fighting crimes anachronistic? The Notion, of Borders, State and New crime typologies” (2015), Vol. 21(4)  Journal of Financial Crimes, 1-40 (voted by editorial team as highly commended and winner for outstanding best paper award published by Emerald (2014) and; Norman Mugarura, ‘The Effect of Corruption Factor in Harnessing Global Anti-Money Laundering Regimes’, 2010, 13(3) Journal of Money Laundering Control, Cambridge:  272-281 (it emerged as the most popular paper published by JMLC, Emerald in (2010). Mugarura Norman, “The Jeopardy of the Bank in Enforcement of normative Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Regimes: a UK Perspective, (2016),” Vol. 18(3) Journal of Money Laundering Control, PP, pp. 352-370 ((voted by editorial team as highly commended and winner for outstanding best paper award published by Emerald (2016).  Norman Mugarura, (2016) “The “EU Brexit implication on a single banking license and other aspects of financial markets regulation in the UK”, International Journal of Law and Management, Vol. 58 Iss: 4, pp.468 – 483.

Norman serves on Editorial Board of the Journal of Anti-Corruption Law (JACL), University of Western Cape in South Africa, Editor-in-Chief of Cavendish Law Journal (CULJ), is a member of Strategic Hub on Organised Crimes (SHOC) in London, on a roaster of Consultants for United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), a member of Research Ethics Committee (REC) at BSU and external examiner at the School of Law, University of Western Cape in SA. He is a Dean (Emeritus) at the Faculty of Law, BSU (2019-2021) and a Consultant for Government Ministries, International Agencies such as UNODC, GIZ on Financial Crimes, Law and Policy matters. He is ready to supervise PhD students not only in his specialist areas of research but also in Business and Public health where he has taught law at a PhD level.

Prof. Mugarura holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of East London, a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from the University of East London, a Master of Laws in Banking and Finance from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, a Master of Philosophy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of East London. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a Fellow of the Institute of Paralegals in London.