Olabisi D. Akinkugbe

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe is an Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He obtained 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. Before joining the Schulich School of Law, Professor Akinkugbe was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. In Spring Term of 2021, he was an Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University where he taught a seminar on Law & Development.

Professor Akinkugbe is a co-founding editor of Afronomicslaw.org blog which focuses on all aspects of international economic law as they relate to Africa and the Global South; and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of International Economic Law (AfJIEL). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), the Board of International Law Association (ILA) Canada; and the Executive Council of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). He previously served as President, African International Economic Law Network (AfIELN). He is a Co-Managing Editor of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law. 

His research interests are at the intersection of international economic law, international human rights law, international investment law, law and development, international courts, and business law as they relate to Africa. He explores these issues from the national, regional, and international contexts. 

Professor Akinkugbe uses interdisciplinary materials from political science, sociology, international development studies, economics and history to explore issues of economic development and international economic law as they relate to Africa. He examines the role of regional courts in economic integration in Africa and how the complex socio-historical, economic, (mega)political and legal contexts that they are embedded shape them. He explores these issues from the national, regional and international contexts.

Areas of Supervision: Africa and International Economic Law, Regional Economic Integration in Africa, International Courts, International Law and Development.