Professor Dapo Akande
Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford
Professor Dapo Akande is the Chichele Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford, a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission, and a barrister at Essex Court Chambers, London. He has held visiting professorships in the US and Europe, including at Yale Law School. He is one of the authors of the Oppenheim’s International Law: The United Nations (2017, OUP) which was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law, and an editor of the Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law (2020, OUP). He is one of the editors of the scholarly blog – EJIL:Talk! and has served on the editorial boards of several leading international law journals including the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law and the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. He has acted as advocate, counsel or adviser in cases before international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Court and the World Trade Organization panels. He regularly provides advice on international law issues to states, international organizations and civil society organizations. He is a member of several boards and advisory committees for governments and international bodies including, the Advisory Committee on International Law of the United States State Department and the Ukrainian Presidential Working Group on compensation for damage caused to Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression by the Russian Federation; and the ICRC’s Global Advisory Board on Digital Threats During Conflict.