Dr. Collins Odote is a Lawyer with a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Nairobi. He joined the University of Nairobi as a tutorial fellow in May 2010 but had taught before then on a part time basis at the Institute for Diplomacy and International Studies of the University of Nairobi.

Since June 2011, he has taught at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP) as a lecturer and also serviced the School of Law, University of Nairobi. He has also been supervising both LLM students as well as PhD students and mentoring the same.

Prior to joining the University, he had worked with and for a number of governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) developing particular competencies in legal research, project cycle management, process consulting, evaluations, election related work, environment and natural resource management work, capacity strengthening and training.   He is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Dr Collins Odote has published numerous books by himself as well as in partnership with other authors.