
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.
- 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)
- Public International law
- Use of Force & International Humanitarian Law/Law of Armed Conflict
- International Dispute Settlement
- International Organizations
- International Criminal Law
- International Economic Law
- Human Rights
- M. Jackson and D. Akande, 'The Right to Life and the Jus ad Bellum: Belligerent Equality and the Duty to Prosecute Acts of Aggression ' (2022) 71 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 453
- D. Akande, P. Akhavan and E Bjorge, 'Economic Sanctions, International Law, and Crimes Against Humanity: Venezuela's ICC Referral' (2021) 115 American Journal of International Law 493
- D. Akande and K. Johnston, 'Implications of the Diversity of the Rules on the Use of Force for Change in the Law' (2021) 32 European Journal of International Law 679
- Akande, Kuosmanen, McDermott and Roser (eds), Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict and the Environment (Oxford University Press 2020)
- B. Saul and D. Akande (eds), Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law (Oxford University Press 2020)
- R. Higgins, P. Webb, D. Akande and S. Sivakumaran J. Sloan, Oppenheim’s International Law: The United Nations (Oxford University Press 2017)
- 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)
Public International Law – supervision across areas of research interest