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Dapo Akande
Dapo Akande is a British-Nigerian academic and lawyer. Akande is the Chichele Professorship, 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!, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chichele Professorship
The Chichele Professorships are statutory professorships at the University of Oxford named in honour of Henry Chichele (also spelt Chicheley or Checheley, although the spelling of the academic position is consistently "Chichele"), an Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford. Fellowship of that college has accompanied the award of a Chichele chair since 1870. Following the work of the 1850 Commission to examine the organization of the university, All Souls College suppressed ten of its fellowships to create the funds to establish the first two Chichele professorships: The Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, established in 1859 and first held by Mountague Bernard, and the Chichele Professor of Modern History, first held by Montagu Burrows. The military history chair was originally established in 1909 as the Chichele Professorship of Military History. In 1923, the History Faculty Board first recommended that the name of the chair be changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |