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Olabisi D. Akinkugbe

Associate Professor of Law; Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law

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Email: Olabisi.Akinkugbe@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4298
Mailing Address: 
Room 422, Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • International Economic Law
  • International Investment Law
  • International Law & Development
  • International Human Rights Law
  • Business Law and Transnational Law
  • Law & Policy of Public-Private Partnerships

Education

  • LLB Hons. (Lagos, Nigeria)
  • Licentiate Degree, Law (Abuja, Nigeria)
  • LLM (Toronto)
  • PhD (Ottawa)

Bar admission

  • Nigeria, 2004

Bio

Olabisi Delebayo Akinkugbe听is the Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law and Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law, 黄色直播.听

Professor Akinkugbe obtained听a Ph.D. in law from the University of Ottawa, an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, and an LL.B. from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He previously served as the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law and was convenor of the annual Viscount Bennett Roundtable on International Economic Law.

In 2024, he was the recipient of the Hannah and Harold Barnett Excellence in Teaching Award.

Professor Akinkugbe's research covers several topics on issues in and at the intersection of public international law, international economic law, human rights, law and development, international courts, and regional economic integration in Africa. He explores these issues from the national, regional, and international contexts. His research draws on critical traditions such as Socio-legal approaches to law, Post-colonialism, and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) among others.

Professor Akinkugbe holds several leadership positions within international law and international economic law journals. In 2023, he was appointed as the section Editor, International Decisions and Decision Essays, American Journal of International Law. In 2020, he co-founded and serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of International Economic Law. Between 2018 and 2019, he served as the co-Managing Editor of the听Nigerian Yearbook of International Law.听Professor Akinkugbe鈥檚 other governance appointments include member of the Board of Editors of the听American Journal of International Law,Journal of International Economic Law,听Journal of World Investment and Trade, the听Canadian Yearbook of International Law,听and the Ocean Yearbook.

Professor Akinkugbe is active in the governance of international societies and professional associations in his field. He has been appointed to and serves on the Executive Councils of the听Canadian Council of International Law (CCIL),听American Society of International Law (ASIL),听the Society of International Economic Law, the steering committee of the Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Board of the听African International Economic Law Network. He previously served as President of the听African International Economic Law Network (2018-2020), and on the听Board of the听International Law Association听(Canada). He was co-chair of the conference planning committee for the CCIL Annual Conference 2023 and the ASIL Mid-Year Forum 2022.

In 2019, Professor Akinkugbe seeded a new and thriving academic community when he co-founded (with James T. Gathii) , which focuses on all aspects of international economic law as they relate to Africa and the Global South.听 currently hosts the following initiatives: the听African Sovereign Debt Justice Network; the听African Journal of International Economic Law;听individual blogs as well as听thematic symposia;听Book Review Symposium;听Indaba听(important conversations);听Webinars; and the Academic Forum.

Professor Akinkugbe has served as a visiting professor and faculty in Canada, Brazil, and the United States. During the 2024-2025 academic year, he has been appointed as the Allan Rock Visiting Professor in Law at the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. In the Winter Term of 2024, he was an invited Visiting Faculty at the School of Law, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil where he taught a series of seminars on international law and the Global South; and publishing. In the Spring Term of 2021, has was appointed as an Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University where he taught a seminar on Law & Development. Before joining the Schulich School of Law, he was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada from 2015-2017.

Prior to joining the academia, Professor Akinkugbe鈥檚 practice and in-house experience focused on project finance, construction law, public-private partnerships and arbitration. He was Legal Counsel at Lekki Concession Company, Nigeria where he administered the project and finance contracts as well as associated contracts in connection with the first public-private partnership road project in Nigeria. 听Before then, he was as an Associate in the law firm of Aluko & Oyebode, Lagos, Nigeria.

Teaching

  • Contracts and Judicial Rule-Making
  • International Investment Law
  • International Trade Law

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

  • The Challenge to the Rule of Law and Democracy in Contemporary West and Central Africa in Gregory Shaffer and Wayne Sandholtz (Ed.), The Rule of Law Under Challenge: The Enmeshment of National and International Trends, (Cambridge University Press, 2024) 
  • Corporate Structures and the Attribution Dilemma in Multinational Enterprises, in Melissa J. Durkee (Ed.), The Law and Logistics of Attribution: Constructing the Identity and Responsibility of States and Firms. (2024, Cambridge University Press, ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory) (with James Thuo Gathii) 
  • 鈥楾he Criticism of Eurocentrism and International Law: Countering and Pluralizing the Research, Teaching, and Practice of Eurocentric International Law鈥 in The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe, Anne van Aaken, Pierre d鈥橝rgent, Lauri M盲lksoo & Johann Justus Vasel (Eds.), (Oxford University Press, 2023) (with Makane Mo茂se Mbengue)
  • A Critical Appraisal of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement in International Economic Law from a (South) African Perspective, Franziska Sucker, and Kholofelo Kugler (Eds.), pp. 283-306, (JUTA Law, South Africa; 2021) 
  • Towards an Analyses of the Mega-Politics Jurisprudence of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in James Thuo Gathii (Eds.) The Performance of Africa鈥檚 International Courts: Using International Litigation for Political, Legal, and Social Change, pp. 149-177 (2020, Oxford University Press)

Journal Articles

  • Race & International Investment Law: On the Possibility of Reform and Non-retrenchment. (2023) American Journal of International Law, 117(3), 535-547 (Review Essay)
  • International Investment Law and Climate Justice: The Search for a Just Green Investment Order, (2023) 46 Fordham Int'l L.J. 169 (with Adebayo Majekolagbe)
  • Judicializing Election Disputes in Africa鈥檚 International Courts, (2022) 84 Law and Contemporary Problems181-218 (with James Thuo Gathii).
  • Africanization and the Reform of International Investment Law, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, (2021) Volume 53:1,7-33.
  • Dispute Settlement under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: A Preliminary Assessment, (2020) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 28pp. 138-158.

External Grants

2021-2024: SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Illicit Financial Flows, Trade and the Sustainable Development Conundrum in Africa

2020-2022黄色直播 Belong Research Award, Illicit Financial Flows, Africa, and Sustainable Development

2016鈥2019: SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Regional and National Courts and Africa鈥檚 Economic Integration: A Study of the East African Community (with Richard Frimpong Oppong)