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Rabiat Akande is an Assistant Professor and York Research Chair in Law and the Histories of Empire at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She specializes in legal history, law and religion, Islamic law, and postcolonial African law and society, with a focus on the interplay between law and global inequality through historical imperial contexts.
- LLB (Hons), University of Ibadan
- SJD, Harvard Law School
Her research examines the British imperial encounter in Northern Nigeria, particularly contestations over religion-state relations and their postcolonial legacies. She is author of Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which analyzes colonial legal governance of religious difference.
Dr. Akande’s work also appears in the American Journal of International Law (forthcoming), Law and History Review, and Journal of Law and Religion. She is currently working on a book project titled Malcolm X, Black Globalism, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism.
- Law and Society in the Muslim World Prize
- Clark Byse Fellowship
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellowship
- NSF-funded research
- Gerda Henkel Foundation support
Dr. Akande chairs the International Legal History Project at the African Institute of International Law (Arusha) and co-chairs the American Society of International Law’s Africa Interest Group. She has taught at Harvard and Northeastern University, and supervised graduate research in legal history, Islamic law, and public international law.
