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York University: Toronto, Ontario, CA

Assistant Professor (Osgoode Hall Law School)
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Rabiat Akande

University of Maryland, Baltimore: Baltimore, US

2024-07-01 to present | Associate Professor; Wilson H. Elkins Professor (Francis King Carey School of Law)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2019 | Clark Byse Teaching Fellow
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Rabiat Akande

Northeastern University: Boston, MA, US

2016 to 2019 | Lecturer (School of Law)
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Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2015 to 2018 | Teaching Fellow
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2013 to 2016 | Master of Laws Course Advisor
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Education and qualifications (4)

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2019-05 | SJD
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2013-05 | LL.M (Degree waived towards SJD)
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Nigerian Law School: Lagos, NG

2011-07 | Qualifying Certificate (First Class Honors)
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University of Ibadan: Ibadan, NG

2009-11 | LL.B (First Class Honors)
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Professional activities (22)

Law and Society Association: Amherst, MA, US

2020 to present | Co-Organizer (International Research Collaborative: The Future of Law in Africa)
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Rabiat Akande

New York State Bar Association: New York, US

2014 to present
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Rabiat Akande

Nigeria Bar Association: Abuja, NG

2011 to present
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York University Osgoode Hall Law School: Toronto, ON, CA

2021 to 2022 | Member (Academic Standing Committee)
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Rabiat Akande

York University Osgoode Hall Law School: Toronto, ON, CA

2021 to 2022 | Member (Admissions Committee)
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Rabiat Akande

York University Osgoode Hall Law School: Toronto, ON, CA

2021 to 2022 | Member (Graduate Studies Committee: Research Stream)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2019 to 2021 | Academy Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow (Academy for International and Area Studies)
Invited position
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2019 to 2021 | Affiliate-Fellow (Program in Islamic Law)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

2017 to 2020 | Undergraduate Thesis Mentor (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2018 to 2019 | Dissertation Completion Fellow (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2016 to 2019 | Graduate Student Associate (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2016 | Cravath Fellow (International Legal Studies)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2015 | Co-organizer (Harvard Law School SJD Association Workshop)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2015 | Convener (Africa Forum)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard University: Cambridge, US

2014 | Panel organizer (Harvard Africa Development Conference)
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Rabiat Akande

Harvard Law School: Cambridge, MA, US

2014 | Board Member (Harvard Africa Law Association)
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Nigerian Law School: Lagos, NG

2011 | Justice Aloma Mukhtar Prize in Civil Litigation
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Rabiat Akande

Nigerian Law School: Lagos, NG

2011 | Adegboyega Awomola Prize in Civil and Criminal Litigation
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University of Ibadan: Ibadan, NG

2009 | Faculty Prize for Best Graduating Student
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University of Ibadan: Ibadan, NG

2009 | Department of Public and International Law Prize
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Rabiat Akande

University of Ibadan: Ibadan, NG

2009 | Department of Private and Business Law Prize
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University of Ibadan: Ibadan, NG

2009 | CS Ola Prize in Company Law and Taxation
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Funding (4)

Academy for International and Area Studies

2019 to 2021 | Grant
Harvard University (Cambridge, US)
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Rabiat Akande

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

2016 to 2019 | Grant
Harvard University (Cambridge, US)
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Rabiat Akande

International Legal Studies

2016 | Grant
Harvard Law School (Cambridge, US)
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Rabiat Akande

Islamic Legal Studies: Law and Social Change

2017 | Grant
Harvard Law School (Cambridge, US)
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Works (31)

Constituting Minorities: Self-Determination and the Legal Politics of Religious Difference in Late Colonial Northern Nigeria

University of Virginia
2022 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Decolonization, Secularization and the Making of the 1958 Penal Code in Late Colonial Nigeria

Osgoode Hall Law School
2022 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Insulating the Church: Ethiopian Tewaedo Church v. Aga and the Private Law Construction of Religious Communities

2022 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Neutralizing Secularism: Religious Liberty and the Making of the Universal Declaration

2022 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

On Quebec’s Bill 21

2022 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

The Legal Politics of Religious Difference in Late Colonial Northern Nigeria

Northwestern University
2022 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Comparative Constitutional Law, Colonialism and Empire

International Society of Public Law: ICON-S
2021 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Debating Diya: Indirect Rule and The Transformation of Islamic Law in British Colonial Northern Nigeria

African Society Association Virtual
2021 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Judging Islamic Law: The 1938 Fatwa of Kano Law School Jurists and the late colonial project in Northern Nigeria

American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting
2021 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Political v. Idealized Sharia in Nigeria by Sarah Eltantawi, invited respondent

Yale Law School Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization
2021 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Representing and Imagining African Muslims: Historical Perspectives

African Society Association Annual Meeting
2021 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

The Future of Law in Africa

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting June
2021 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

The Making of the Islamic World: Islam at a Crossroads in West Africa

Ottoman History Podcast
2021-01 | Other
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Rabiat Akande

Constitutionalism in States of Exception: Data Privacy and the Question of Rights in Emergencies

Emergency and National Planning Colloquium
2020 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Marginalizing Secularism: Decolonizing the State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria

Law and Society Association Virtual Conference
2020 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-60

Global Scholars Academy, the Graduate Institute for International and Area Studies-Institute for Global Law and Policy
2020 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Secularizing Islam: The Colonial Encounter and the Making of a British Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria, 1903–58

Law and History Review
2020-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/s0738248019000166
Part of ISSN: 0738-2480
Part of ISSN: 1939-9022
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Rabiat Akande

Decolonization and African Laws and Legal Systems: Marginalizing Secularism, Decolonizing the State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-60

African Legal History Symposium
2019 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Global History: Marginalizing Secularism, Decolonizing the State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-60

American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting
2019 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Navigating Entanglements: Contestations Over Religion-State Relations in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1977

2019 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Rabiat Akande

Transnational and International Influence on African Rights: Marginalizing Secularism, Decolonizing the State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-60

African Studies Association Annual Meeting
2019 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

The Making of a Colonial Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria

Islamic Law Blog: Harvard Law School Program on Islamic Law
2019-12-13 | Interactive resource
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Rabiat Akande

Legal Histories of the British Empire: Secularizing Islamic Law: The Colonial Encounter and the Making of a British Colonial Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria, 1903-1960

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2018 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Secularizing Islamic Law: The Colonial Encounter and the Making of a British Colonial Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria, 1903-1960

Harvard University
2018 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

The Future of Africa

Harvard Black Law Students Association 50th Anniversary
2018 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Contestations over Secularism in Nigeria

Institute of Global Law and Policy
2016 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Religion, Culture and Law: Contestations over Secularism: The Nigerian Experience

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2016 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

African Languages and the Politics of Law and Identity

African Languages in the Disciplines Conference
2014 | Lecture
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Rabiat Akande

Transnational Security and State De-territorialization: The Case of the Lake Chad

2013 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Rabiat Akande

DEBATING DIYA: INDIRECT RULE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN BRITISH COLONIAL NORTHERN NIGERIA

Working paper
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Rabiat Akande

NEUTRALIZING SECULARISM: “RELIGIOUS ANTILIBERALISM” AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GLOBAL ECUMENICAL PROJECT

Journal of Law and Religion (forthcoming)
Preprint
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Rabiat Akande
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