Speaker Series: Rabiat Akande

Rabiat Akande (she/her) joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2024. She works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law, and (post)colonial African law and society.

Professor Akande is the author of Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press: 2023). Her work has also appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of Law and Religion, Law and History Review, the Supreme Court Review, and in volumes by Cambridge University Press, University of Toronto Press, and University of Virginia Press. Currently, she is co-editing an encyclopedia of law and religion (Elgar Publishing: under contract), an African international law reader, and a volume on African international legal history. She is also at work on a book exploring Malcolm X’s intellectual legacy titled Malcolm X, Black Globalism, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism.

Professor Akande chairs the international legal history project at the African Institute of International Law in Arusha with the support of the African Union and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among other institutions.

To register, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.