| Olasupo Shasore | |
| Honorific Suffix: | SAN |
| Office: | Attorney General of Lagos State |
| Term Start: | 2007 |
| Term End: | 2011 |
| Governor: | Babatunde Fashola |
| Predecessor: | Yemi Osinbajo |
| Successor: | Ade Ipaye |
| Birth Name: | Olasupo Shasore |
| Birth Date: | 1964 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria |
| Residence: | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Alma Mater: | |
| Education: | |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Spouse: | Gbemi Shasore |
| Children: | 3 |
Olasupo Shasore (born 22 January 1964) is a Nigerian lawyer[1] and a founding partner in the law firm of Africa Law Practice NG & Co,[2] a commercial law firm in Nigeria. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State from 2007 to 2011.[3]
Shasore attended the Federal Government College Lagos and Igbobi College, Lagos,[4] before studying law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) graduating with an LL.B in 1986 followed by a Bachelor of Laws from Nigerian Law School in 1987. He then achieved an LL.M through the University of Lagos in 1990.[5]
He was called to the Nigerian Bar on 22 October 1987; became a member of the Inner Bar and conferred with the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2006; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom) 2007; former member of the Body of Benchers of Nigeria; Notary Public for Nigeria; President of the Lagos Court of Arbitration (LCA) (until January 2016); Chairman of the Lagos State Law Reform Commission (until 2015);[6] member/secretary of the Presidential Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce (2013); led Lagos State delegates at National Constitutional conference (2014).
As Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, he led the review of the Criminal Code Law, and the Administration of Criminal Justice Law; authored and issued the first Prosecutors' Guidelines (2011); initiated the first African Regional Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP). Chaired the Mortgage and Property Law Reform Committee, which produced and recommended the Mortgage & Property Law (2009). He also authored the Home Ownership and Mortgage Policy (2011).[7] He also initiated the policy and crafted the tenant friendly Tenancy Law of Lagos State, balancing the inequality between landlords and tenants.
He is also an historian and author; his recent books include Ministering Justice: Administration of Justice in Nigeria (Qbooks, 2019); Platter of Gold: Making Nigeria (2016); Possessed – A History of Law & Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos (2014);[8] Commercial Arbitration – Arbitration Law & International Practice in Nigeria (Lexis Nexis, 2011), Johnson and Shasore;[9] Jurisdiction & Sovereign Immunity in Nigerian Commercial Law (Practice and textbook) (2007, NIIA).
Shasore is married with three children.