Professor Dapo Akande is a British-Nigerian academic and lawyer. He is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, a Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). Akande was honoured with a portrait at St Peter’s College, Oxford and was the first Black professor to receive such recognition. Akande is a founding editor of EJIL:Talk!, the scholarly blog of the European Journal of International Law.
In 2020, Akande was nominated as the British candidate for the International Law Commission of the United Nations based in Geneva, Switzerland, for the term 2023–2027. In 2021, during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Akande was elected to the International Law Commission.
Akande graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife) in 1992. In 1993, he qualified as a barrister and solicitor from the Nigerian Law School. Akande obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994, and a Master of Arts (MA) by resolution from the University of Oxford in 2004.
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