Professor Hakeem Yusuf is Professor of Global Law at the University of Derby Law School. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Gibraltar, and Visiting Professor at the School of Law, and the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London (2021/2022). Hakeem has taught at various universities across the United Kingdom including Glasgow, Queen’s University Belfast, Strathclyde, and Birmingham.

He was a Professor in Global Law and Head of the Open University Law School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. He was a Professor of Law and Global Legal Studies at the University of Derby. Hakeem is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In an earlier professional career, He worked as a Law Officer in the Attorney-General’s Chambers, Lagos State Ministry of Justice, Nigeria after a stint in private practice.

Hakeem’s books include Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability, and the Rule of Law (a pioneering book in the Routledge Transitional Justice Series; shortlisted for the 2010 Kevin Boyle Prize by the Irish Association of Law Teachers).

He is also the author of Colonial and Post-colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth: Peace, Order and Good Government (awarded the prestigious John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History in 2015; shortlisted for the Kevin Boyle Prize 2015 by the Irish Association of Law Teachers). In 2011, Hakeem served as Commissioner on the Truth Commission in Osun State, Nigeria.

He has consulted for governments including those of the United States and Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. He has also consulted for non-governmental organizations like the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa.

Hakeem is a well-traveled researcher and scholar. He has been invited to present lectures and deliver keynote address papers at several conferences (including by the African Union), seminars, workshops, and summer schools across many countries in Africa, Asia, the United States of America, and Europe.