Dapo Akande Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law, Fellow of Exeter College (since April 2018) and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). From 2012 to 2017 he was Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. He has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School (where he was also Robinna Foundation International Fellow), 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. Before taking up his position in Oxford in 2004, he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law (1998-2000) and at the University of Durham (2000-2004). From 1994 to 1998, he taught international law (part-time) at the London School of Economics and at Christ’s College and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Dapo has published on varied areas of international law in the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the Journal of International Criminal Justice amongst other journals. 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. He is one of the authors of Oppenheim’s International Law: The United Nations (2017, OUP) and one of the editors of the Practitioners Guide to the Application of Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict (2016, OUP). He was a member of the International Group of Experts that prepared the Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations (2017, CUP) which was commissioned by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute’s project on the Restatement Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Dapo is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law and previously served on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of International Law and the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. He is also on the advisory boards of International Law Studies, the Israel Law Review, the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law, and the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law. He is a Counsellor on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and serves on the Board of Trustees of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; the Executive Council of the British Branch of the International Law Association; the Advisory Board of the African Association of International Law; the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Transitional Justice; the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa; the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on the Future of Human Rights; the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (a group of 12 senior African experts on international criminal justice and human rights). 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, or adviser on international law issues to United Nations bodies, the African Union Commission, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). He has provided advice to States and non-governmental organizations on matters of international law. In addition, he has assisted counsel, or provided expert opinions in cases before several international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, international arbitral tribunals in mixed disputes, World Trade Organization and North American Free Trade Area Dispute Settlement panels. He has also acted as consultant/adviser in cases in national courts, including the UK Supreme Court. In 2017 he is acting as legal adviser to the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Drone’s Inquiry into the ways in which the UK works with partners on the use of drones.
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- D. Akande and Talita de Souza-Dias, ‘A New Approach to the”Interests of Justice” in the Ten Years Ahead of the Rome Statute‘ (2018) ICCForum.com
- D. Akande, ‘An Analysis of why the ICC does not have Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression Committed by Nationals of ICC Parties which have not Ratified the Kampala Aggression Amendments‘ (2018) ICCForum.com
- D. Akande, ‘Immunity of Heads of States of Nonparties in the Early Years of the ICC‘ (2018) 112 American Journal of International Law Unbound 172
- D. Akande and A. Tzanakopoulos, ‘The Crime of Aggression before the International Criminal Court: Introduction to the Symposium‘ (2018) 29 European Journal of International Law 829
- D. Akande and A. Tzanakopoulos, ‘Treaty Law and ICC Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression‘ (2018) 29 European Journal of International Law 939
- D. Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, ‘Humanitarian Actors’ Engagement with Accountability Mechanisms in Situations of Armed Conflict’ (2017) 2016 Anuário Português De Direito Internacional 105
- R. Higgins, P. Webb, D. Akande and S. Sivakumaran J. Sloan, Oppenheim’s International Law: The United Nations (Oxford University Press 2017)
- D. Akande and E. Gillard, ‘Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict‘ (2016) 92 International Law Studies 483
- D. Akande, “International Organizations”, in Evans (ed.) International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018, 4th ed)
- D. Akande and E. Gillard, “The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict: An Introduction” (2017) Anuário Português De Direito Internacional 2016 23
- D. Akande and E. Gillard, “Promoting Compliance with the Rules Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict: The Law and Some Policy Considerations”, (2017) 50 Israel Law Review 119
- D. Akande, ‘Introduction to Symposium on Koh & Buchwald, “The Crime of Aggression: The United States Perspective”‘ (2016) AJIL Unbound 226
- D. Akande and E. Gillard, ‘Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict‘ (2016) Commissioned and Published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- D. Murray, D. Akande, C. Garraway, F. Hampson, N. Lubell and E. Wilmshurst, Practitioners’ Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press 2016)
- D. Akande, ‘Selection of the International Court of Justice as a Forum for Contentious and Advisory Proceedings (Including Jurisdiction)‘ (2016) 7 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 320
- D. Akande, ‘The Impact of the Genocide Convention on the Obligation to Implement ICC Arrest Warrants‘ in R. Steinberg (ed), Contemporary Issues Facing the International Criminal Court (Brill Nijhoff 2016)
- D. Akande and A. Tzanakopoulos, ‘The International Court of Justice and the Concept of Aggression‘ in C Kress and S Barriga (eds), The Crime of Aggression: A Commentary (Cambridge University Press 2016)
- C. Heyns, D. Akande, L. Hill-Cawthorne and T. Chengeta, ‘The Right to Life and the International Law Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones‘ (2016) 65 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 791
- D. Akande and L. Hill-Cawthorne, ‘The Lieber Code and the Regulation of Civil War in International Law‘ (2015) 53 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 638
- D. Akande, ‘International Organizations‘ in Evans (ed), International Law(Oxford University Press 2014)
- D. Akande and Thomas Lieflaender, ‘Clarifying Necessity, Imminence, and Proportionality in the Law of Self-Defense‘ (2013) 107 American Journal of International Law 563
- D. Akande, ‘The Effect of Security Council Resolutions and Domestic Proceedings on State Obligations to Cooperate with the ICC‘ (2012) 10 Journal of International Criminal Justice 299
- D. Akande, ‘Classification of Armed Conflicts: Relevant Legal Concepts‘ in Wilmshurst (ed), International Law and the Classification of Conflicts (OUP 2012)
- D. Akande, ‘US/NATO Targeting of Afghan Drug Traffickers: An Illegal and Dangerous Precedent?‘ in Gaston (ed), The Laws of War and 21st Century Conflict (Idebate Press 2012)
- D. Akande, C. Jalloh and M. du Plessis, ‘Assessing the African Union Concerns about Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court‘ (2011) 4 African Journal of Legal Studies 5
- D. Akande and Sangeeta Shah, ‘Immunities of State Officials, International Crimes and Foreign Domestic Courts: A Rejoinder to Alexander Orakhelashvili‘ (2011) 22 European Journal of International Law 857
- D. Akande, ‘The Genocide Convention and the Obligation of Cooperation with the International Criminal Court‘ (2011) UCLA Human Rights and International Criminal Law Online Forum (2011)
- D. Akande and Sangeeta Shah, ‘Immunities of State Officials, International Crimes and Foreign Domestic Courts‘ (2010) 21 European Journal of International Law 815
- D. Akande, Max du Plessis and Charles Jalloh, ‘An African Expert Study on the African Union’s Concerns About Article 16 of the Rome Statute of the ICC‘ (2010) Institute for Security Studies
- D. Akande, ‘Clearing the Fog of War? The ICRC’s Interpretive Guidance on Direct Participation in Hostilities‘ (2010) 59 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 180
- D. Akande, ‘International Organizations‘ in Evans (ed), International Law (3rd ed.) (OUP 2010)
- D. Akande, ‘Prosecuting Aggression: The Consent Problem and the Role of the Security Council‘ (2010)
- D. Akande and M. Milanovic and others, ‘Submission to the Iraq Inquiry on the UK’s Legal Justification for the Iraq War and Lord Goldsmith’s Legal Advice‘ (2010) Submission to the Chilcott Inquiry on Iraq
- D. Akande, ‘What Exactly Was Agreed in Kampala on the Crime of Aggression?‘ (2010) 2 Equality of Arms Review 23
- D. Akande, ‘Sources of International Criminal Law‘ in Cassese , Akande, et al (ed), Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (OUP 2009)
- D. Akande, ‘The Legal Nature of the Security Council Referrals to the ICC and its Impact on Al Bashirs Immunities‘ (2009) 7 Journal of International Criminal Justice 333
- D. Akande, ‘Arrest Warrant Case; Pius Nwaoga v. The State’ in Cassese, Akande, et al (ed), Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (OUP 2009)
- D. Akande, ‘Civil Remedies for International Crimes‘ in Cassese, Akande, et al. (ed), Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (OUP 2009)
- A.Cassese, G. Acquaviva, D. Akande and others (eds), Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 2009)
- D. Akande, ‘The Protective Principle; The Active Nationality Principle; The Passive Personality Principle; The Territoriality Principle’ in Cassese, Akande, et al (ed), Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (OUP 2009)
- D. Akande, ‘Act of State Doctrine’ in P. Cane (ed), The New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008)
- D. Akande, ‘The Bashir Indictment: Are Serving Heads of State Immune from ICC Prosecution?‘ (2008) Debating International Justice in Africa: Oxford Transitional Justice Research Essays, 2008-2010 87
- D. Akande, ‘Are there Limits to the Powers of the Security Council? in Old Questions and New Challenges for the UN Security System‘ (2007) V Journal of International Law and Policy
- D. Akande, ‘The Application of International Law Immunities in Prosecutions for International Crimes‘ in Harrington, Milde & Vernon (ed), Bringing Power to Justice? The Prospects of the International Criminal Court (McGill-Queens University Press 2006)
- D. Akande, ‘The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits’ in Bekou & Cryer (ed), The International Criminal Court (Ashgate 2005)
- D. Akande, ‘International Law Immunities and the International Criminal Court‘ (2004) 98 (3) The American Journal of International Law 407
- D. Akande and S Williams, ‘International Adjudication and National Security Issues: What Role for the WTO’ (2003) 43 Virginia Journal of International Law 365
- D. Akande, ‘The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits‘ (2003) (2003)1 Journal of International Criminal Justice 618
- D. Akande, ‘The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Maintenance of International Peace’ in N. White (ed), Collective Security Law (Ashgate 2003)
- D. Akande, ‘The Settlement of International Disputes: Institutions and Procedures, Collier and Lowe (OUP, 1999).’ (2001) 64 Modern Law Review 140 [Review]
- D. Akande, ‘Africa Have Your Say‘ (2000) BBC BBC World Service Duration: 54 mins
- D. Akande, ‘The Era of International Criminal Responsibility’ in (ed), The Hutchinson Almanac (2000)
- D. Akande, ‘Prosecuting Heads of States: The Implications of the Milosevic and Pinochet Cases\”,‘ (1999) 5 Strategic Comments (International Institute for Strategic Studies)
- D. Akande, ‘Review of The International Court of Justice: Its Future Role After Fifty Years, Muller, Raic and Thuránszky (eds.), (Martinus Nijhoff, 1997).’ (1998) 69 British Yearbook of International Law 524 [Review]
- D. Akande, ‘The Competence of International Organizations and the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice‘ (1998) 8 European Journal of International Law 437
- D. Akande, ‘Nuclear Weapons, Unclear Law? Deciphering the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion of the International Court’ (1997) 68 British Yearbook of International Law
- D. Akande, ‘The International Court of Justice and the Security Council: Is there Room for Judicial Control of Decisions of the Political Organs of the United Nations’ (1997) 46 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 309
- D. Akande, ‘The Legal Imperatives toward Supranationalism Inherent in the Process of Economic Integration’ (1996) 8 Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the African Society of International and Comparative Law 103
- D. Akande, ‘The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Maintenance of International Peace’ (1996) 8 African Journal of International and Comparative Law 592
- D. Akande, ‘Review of National Treaty Law and Practice: France, Germany, India, Switzerland, Thailand and the United Kingdom, Monroe Leigh and Merritt R. Blakeslee (eds.), (ASIL, 1995)’ (1995) 7 African Journal of International and Comparative Law 215 [Review]
- D. Akande, S. Davis, M. Guerts and T. Doyle, ‘New Trends in United Nations Peacekeeping” – a section in Recent Developments in International Law 1993’ (1994) European Law Students Association Law Review 71