Professor Dapo Akande

LLB, LLM

Law

University Academic Fellow and Chichele Professor of Public International Law since 2023

I am a generalist public international lawyer, who not only works on a wide range of particular sub-disciplines within the field of international law but is also committed to exploration of those aspects, concepts and areas of the field that connect it together as a field of study and practice. I have worked and published on the law relating to the use of force, the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, international dispute settlement, the law of international organizations, particularly of the United Nations, the immunities of states and state officials, international human rights law, and international economic law.

Links

Law Faculty Profile

Research Areas

Public International Law

Use of Force & International Humanitarian Law/Law of Armed Conflict

International Dispute Settlement

International Organizations

International Criminal Law

International Economic Law

Selected Publications

'The Right to Life and the Jus ad Bellum: Belligerent Equality and the Duty to Prosecute Acts of Aggression'

M. Jackson and D. Akande, International and Comparative Law Quarterly 71(2), 453-463, (2022)

'Economic Sanctions, International Law, and Crimes Against Humanity: Venezuela's ICC Referral'

D. Akande, P. Akhavan and E Bjorge, American Journal of International Law 115, 493-512 (2021)

'Implications of the Diversity of the Rules on the Use of Force for Change in the Law'

D. Akande and K. Johnston, European Journal of International Law 32, 679-698, (2021)

Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict and the Environment

Akande, Kuosmanen, McDermott and Roser (eds), Oxford University Press, (2020)

Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law

B. Saul and D. Akande (eds), Oxford University Press, (2020)

Oppenheim’s International Law: The United Nations

R. Higgins, P. Webb, D. Akande and S. Sivakumaran J. Sloan, Oxford University Press, (2017)

Memberships and roles

Member, United Nations International Law Commission (2023-2027)

Member, Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, United States Department of State (2021-)

Member, Ukraine Presidential Working Group on Compensation for damage caused to Ukraine as a Result of Armed Aggression by the Russian Federation (2022 -)

Member, World Economic Forum, Global Council on the Future of Human Rights (2016-2018)

Member of the Editorial Boards of The American Journal of International Law (2013-2022); the European of International Law (2007-2-17), African Journal of International & Comparative Law (2007-2013)

Member of the Advisory Boards of International Law Studies; Israel Law Review; Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law

Trustee, the Rhodes Trust (2020-); British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Counsellor & Member of Executive Council – American Society of International Law (2017-2019)

Teaching

Public International Law – supervision across areas of research interest

Background

Professor of Public International Law, Blavatnik School of Government/Fellow, Exeter College, University of Oxford (2018-2023)

Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law/Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford (2014-2018)

University Lecturer in (and later Associate Professor of) Public International Law, Faculty of Law/Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford (2004-2014)

Lecturer in Law, Department of Law, University of Durham (2000-2004)

Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Nottingham (1998-2000)