International Law Project

When does sharing become labour? When does a parent's "yes" stop being enough? New article with @EyenLuke first presented @asilorg #MYM on sharenting, child rights & platform capitalism is out in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. 📖bit.ly/491yWKd

“It is never easy to capture who I am in a few words. I wear many hats, and to different people, I represent different things.” ....this feature interview forced me to stop, reflect, and articulate the past few years of my doctoral journey at @uocommonlaw and how I came to be here. Gratitude to all who continue to pour into me and make this journey meaningful and enjoyable. Read here: bit.ly/49EV0vl @uOttawaHRREC | @ilawproject

It was a packed 48 hours @MaxAnthropology in Halle (Saale), #Germany – the historic salt city – at the generous invitation of Prof. Anuscheh Farahat, Katharina Eber and @AngelicaCocoma, with conversations that added new flavour to so many questions on transnational labour mobility. #InternationalLaw #LabourMigration

What started as a late-breaking panel at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law has now been published. My essay, “Musings on ‘Internationality’: Cultural Particularities in Democratic Discourse in Africa,” has just been published in the American Journal of International Law AJIL Unbound as part of the Symposium on Africa’s International Law of Democracy. In the piece, I: 🔸foreground Pan-Africanism as a normative project that both challenges and enriches global understandings of democratic governance; 🔸 develop a distinction between a law of democracy—emerging organically from local practices, historical struggles, and normative pluralism—and a law on democracy—often projected from dominant political centers through treaties, conditions, and monitoring mechanisms; and 🔸explore how these two registers can sometimes reinforce each other, but also generate frictions when “universalized” standards collide with locally grounded forms of legitimacy. 🔗 Read the piece here: bit.ly/3LHrACJ #InternationalLaw #Africa #Democracy #PanAfricanism #AJILUnbound #ASIL

The #IBA2025 week closed on a high at the #YLC retreat in @RavineVineyard in the beautiful @NiagaraRegion

It was also great connecting with members of the @uocommonlaw community in Toronto, including @AdedijiDamola and Dean @ProfKristenBoon

The weather, regardless, Toronto rolled out a warm welcome for #IBA2025 @IBAevents @IBAnews, and my time at the conference was full of highlights.

It was a time to connect with so many members of the @NigBarAssoc, and hear the keynote of Nigeria’s nominee to the @CIJ_ICJ, @olufemielias #IBA2025

A true full-circle moment was reconnecting with @sanjsokutepa my “Oga” who gave me my first shot in law as an intern and later as counsel in chambers.

Special thanks to our star speakers at #IBA2026 for enriching today’s panel. Your expertise in business, international law, food & agriculture, and health law sparked an engaging conversation on practical pathways to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. #SDG1

….here I do a cultural realist reading of @kemiadetiba 's To Kill a Monkey, situating international legal claims within the story’s social cues and incentives....

Toronto owes me nothing. 🖤 I left Toronto with a full heart... ideas sharpened, spirit steadied, while surrounded by friends and kin. Engaging at the TWAIL conference was uplifting…thanks to Profs. @obioraokaforc and @Essenbi for the invitation. #TWAIL #InternationalLaw

Attending the #ASILMYM in Cleveland, Ohio? You are invited to the WILIG Coffee & Conversation. Details in the poster below! It’s a real privilege to carry the tradition forward once again this year, this time to Cleveland. Drop by and say hello — I'd, we'd love to meet you!