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Olabisi D. Akinkugbe

Assistant Professor

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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:
  • African Regional Economic Cooperation/Integration
  • International Law & Development
  • Socio-Legal Approaches to Law
  • Transnational Law
  • Business 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 D. Akinkugbe is an Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Law. He joined the Schulich School of Law faculty in 2017 and holds a Ph.D. 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.

As a practising lawyer, Professor Akinkugbe worked as a legal counsel on the first public-private partnership road project in West Africa, where he advised on various aspects of the project and finance contracts. He was also an associate in a law firm in Lagos, Nigeria, practicing corporate and commercial law and an active member of the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice group.

Prof. Akinkugbe is a founding editor of Afronomicslaw – a blog on all aspects of international economic law as they relate to Africa; and the Co-Managing Editor of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law.

Research

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

Teaching

Grants

  • 2016–2019: SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Regional and National Courts and Africa’s Economic Integration: A Study of the East African Community (with Richard Frimpong Oppong)
  • 2015: Nicole Senécal Graduate Scholarship in International Law
  • 2013–2015: University of Ottawa Excellence Award
  • 2011–2015: University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship
  • 2007–2008: Innovation Law Scholarship, Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, University of Toronto

Selected awards & honours

  • 2015–2016: Nominee, University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law Teaching Excellence Award

Selected publications

  • “Dispute Settlement under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: A Preliminary Assessment”, (African Journal of International and Comparative Law – Special Issue on Supranational Courts in Africa) (Forthcoming, 2020) 
  • “Towards an Analyses of the Mega-Politics Jurisprudence of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice” in James Thuo Gathii (eds.) The Performance of Africa's International Courts: Using International Litigation for Political, Legal, and Social Change, (2020, Oxford University Press) (Forthcoming)
  • Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Sara Seck, and Adebayo Majekolagbe, “2018 Developments in Home State Foreign Direct Investment Policies”, Yearbook of International Investment Law and Policy, pp. 41-49 (Oxford University Press, 2019) 
  • Olabisi D Akinkugbe, Ohio Omiunu, Amaka Vanni, Regis Y. Simo and Luwam Dirar, “Africa’s Participation in International Economic Law in the 21st Century: An Introduction”, (2020) Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 17, Issue 1: 1-10
  • Olabisi D Akinkugbe, “Reverse Contributors? African State Parties, ICSID, and the Development of International Investment Law”, (Invited contribution under review for Special Issue on “Africa and the ICSID System), ICSID Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2019), pp. 434–454
  • Olabisi D Akinkugbe, “To Recognize or Not” Good Faith under Nigerian Law of Contract”, (2019) Vol. 1, Issue 1, Journal of Commonwealth Law, pp. 1-22 
  • Olabisi D Akinkugbe, “Informal Networks of Corruption: Assessing the Challenges for Public Sector Whistleblowing in Nigeria” (2018) Jindal Global Law Review, pp. 1-18(Special Issue on “New Governance Strategies for Preventing Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice”)

Service & activity

  • 2018 – present, President, African International Economic Law Network, SIEL.
  • 2015 – present, Member, Canadian Law and Society Association
  • 2013 – present Member, Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)
  • 2012 – present, Member, American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Group
  • 2011 – present, Member, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Ottawa