A compilation of lectures delivered by the renowned and prolific law scholar, who was formerly Chief Judge of Oyo State and Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His essays cover ethics in business; democracy and civil society; constitutionalism; democracy, individual rights and law; human rights; international human rights norms and their domestic application; human rights in judicial decisions; the Nigerian judiciary and its role in post-colonial Africa into the twenty-first century; interpretations of statutes, and certainties in law.