Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Assistant Professor

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Email: Olabisi.Akinkugbe@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4298
Mailing Address:
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- International Economic Law
- International Investment Law
- International Law & Development
- International Human Rights Law
- Business Law and Transnational 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
- Contracts and Judicial Decision-Making (LAWS 1000X/Y)
- International Trade Law (LAWS 2056X/Y)
- International Human Rights Law (LAWS 2074X/Y)