Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford where he is also the Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. He is Yamani Fellow at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford where he is also the Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. He is Yamani Fellow at St. Peter’s College, Oxford. He has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School, the University of Miami School of Law and the Catolica Global Law School, Lisbon. He was the 2015 Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law School’s Asia- Pacific Centre for Military Law.

Prof. Akande has published papers on varied areas of international law in a number of scholarly journals, including the American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, British Yearbook of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly and Journal of International Criminal Justice. His article, “The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits”, was awarded the 2003 Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize, and his 2016 co-authored piece, “The International Legal Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones”, in the International Comparative Law Quarterly was selected for the ICLQ Annual Lecture 2017.

Dapo Akande is a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of International Law and the American Journal of International Law, and previously sat on the Board of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. He is founding editor of EJIL:Talk! the widely read scholarly blog of the European Journal of International Law.

He has acted as consultant, expert and adviser on international law issues to states, non-governmental organisations, international courts and tribunals, United Nations bodies, the African Union Commission, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). He is currently a legal adviser to the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones inquiry into the ways in which the UK works with partners on the use of drones.