Dapo Akande

Co-Investigator

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Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law, Yamani Fellow at St. Peter’s College, Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) & the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. He has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School (where he was also Robinna Foundation International Fellow), the University of Miami School of Law and the Catolica Global Law School, Lisbon. Before taking up his position in Oxford in 2004, he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law (1998-2000) and at the University of Durham (2000-2004). From 1994 to 1998, he taught international law (part-time) at the London School of Economics and at Christ’s College and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

He has varied research interests within the field of general international law and has published articles on aspects of the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, international criminal law and the law of armed conflict. His articles have been published in leading international law journals such as the American Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law and the European Journal of International Law . His article in the Journal of International Criminal Justice on the “Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits” was awarded the 2003 Giorgio La Pira Prize.

Dapo has advised States, international organizations and non-governmental organizations on matters of international law. He has worked with the United Nations on issues relating to international humanitarian law and human rights law; acted as consultant for the African Union on the international criminal court and on the law relating to terrorism; and also as a consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat on the law of armed conflict and international criminal law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats, military officers and other government officials. He has advised and assisted counsel, or provided expert opinions, in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, international arbitral tribunals, WTO and NAFTA Dispute Settlement Panels as well as cases in England and the United States of America.

In addition to being founding editor of EJIL:Talk! (the widely read blog of the European Journal of International Law), he is (or has been) a member of the boards of a number of journals, academic and professional organizations. These include membership of the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law; the European Journal of International Law; the African Journal of International and Comparative Law; of the Advisory Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; the Executive Council of the British Branch of the International Law Association; the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Transitional Justice; the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa; and the Advisory Board of International Law Studies. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute’s project on the Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.

Blogposts by Dapo Akande

An International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the ICC Head of State Immunity Issue (cross-posted from EJIL: Talk!)
The Bashir Case: Has the South African Supreme Court Abolished Immunity for all Heads of States? (cross-posted from EJIL: Talk!)
International Criminal Justice on the March? (cross-posted from EJIL:Talk! )
UK Parliamentary Inquiry into UK Policy on the Use of Drones for Targeted Killing (cross-posted from EJIL:Talk! )
The Constructive Ambiguity of the Security Council’ ISIS Resolution (cross-posted from EJIL: Talk! )
The International Court of Justice and the Concept of Aggression: Lessons for the ICC? (cross-posted from EJIL: Talk! )