Dapo Akande

Dapo Akande is a British-Nigerian academic and lawyer. Akande is the Chichele Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). Akande was the first Black professor to be honoured with a portrait at St Peter's College, Oxford. Akande is a founding editor of ''EJIL:Talk!'', the scholarly blog of the European Journal of International Law. In November 2020, Akande was nominated as the United Kingdom candidate for the International Law Commission of the United Nations based in Geneva, Switzerland, for the term 2023–2027. In June 2021, it was announced that Akande had also been nominated by Japan, Kenya, Slovenia and Nigeria and was the first candidate to be nominated by countries from four United Nations regional groups in the history of the International Law Commission. On 12 November 2021, Akande was elected to the International Law Commission at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Provided by Wikipedia