Dr. Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu PhD

• PhD (UBC) 
• LLM (Calgary) 
• LLB (Lagos)

Dr. Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu (PhD) is a full professor at the College of Law. She is Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies at the college. She was recently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton in England. She joined the College of Law in 2008. Before she joined the college, she was a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. A recipient of the Provost’s College Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Odumosu-Ayanu teaches several courses including the Law of Contracts, which she has taught since 2007. She is a contributor to one of Canada’s leading contracts law casebooks. She has also served as supervisor and advisory committee member to several LLM and PhD students who have successfully completed their programs.

A recipient of several competitive research grants, including grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Dr. Odumosu-Ayanu’s research has been published in several leading international journals and books. She has also coedited books and journal issues. She has spoken at numerous international conferences across several continents, delivered invited lectures at leading universities, and co-convened workshops and conferences with leading experts. Her current research interests in natural resource development, international law on foreign investment, human rights, and socio-economic development focus on the positions of local communities and Indigenous peoples and their interactions with legal systems.

Dr. Odumosu-Ayanu has served on the boards of professional associations, academic journals, and community organizations such as the Saskatchewan Intercultural Association. She serves/has served on the editorial/advisory boards of the Business and Human Rights Journal, Law and Society Review, Journal of African Law, African Journal of International Economic Law, and the African Yearbook of International Law. She was co-chair of the Midwest Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and a vice president of the Canadian Law and Society Association. She has also been an active contributor to other scholarly activities including chair of a SSHRC committee, reviewer for granting agencies including SSHRC, external examiner and reviewer for publishers, journals and universities including the University of Oxford and the University of Victoria, and a member of several university committees.

• Contracts
• Business Organizations I
• Law, Development and the International System
• Advanced Law, Development and the International System

Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. and Mark Stoddart (Eds.) (2025). Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes and Tensions. Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T., (2025). Agreements, Consultation, and Consent in Extractive Projects. In Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. and Mark Stoddart (Eds.) (2025). Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes and Tensions. (pp. 92-107) Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge.

Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T., Mark C.J. Stoddart and Axel Pueugue (2025). Contested Stakeholder Consultations in Global Comparative Perspective. In Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. and Mark Stoddart (Eds.) (2025). Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes and Tensions. (pp. 3-25) Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge.

Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T., and Mark C.J. Stoddart (2025). Beyond Stakeholder Consultation Regimes: A Regime in Flux. In Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. and Mark Stoddart (Eds.) (2025). Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes and Tensions. (pp. 251-266) Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T (2024). “Remarks by Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu” in International Law through the Looking Glass of ISDS. ASIL Proceedings, 118: 250-252.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2023). Local Communities, Indigenous Peoples, and Reform/Re-Definition of International Investment Law. Journal of World Investment and Trade, 24: 792-837.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2023). Umbrella Clauses. In David Schneiderman and Gus Van Harten, Rethinking Investment Law: Perspectives and Prospects. (pp. 153-179) Oxford University Press

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T., Okafor O. & Bawa S. (2022). The Socialization of Human Rights and the African Human Rights Action Plan: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. African Journal of Legal Studies, 14: 139-166.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2022). Contractual Interpretation. In S. Ben-Ishai & D. Percy (Eds.), Contracts: Cases and Commentaries (pp. 509-554). Toronto: Thomson Reuters Canada

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2022). Indigenous Peoples in International Investment Law: A TWAIL/UNDRIP Reading. In D. Newman (Ed.), Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights. (pp. 256-279) Edward Elgar. 

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2022). ‘Community Development’ in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project. In N. Andrews, J.A. Grant and J.S. Ovadia (Eds.), Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? (pp. 239-259) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. and Dwight Newman (Eds.) (2021). Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources and the Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2021). Local Content, Community Content and Sustainable Development in the Oil and Gas Industry: Perspectives from Legislation, Policy and Community Development Agreements. In D. Olawuyi (Ed.), Local Content, Sustainable Development and Treaty Implementation in Global Energy Markets (pp. 369-391). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2021). The (Legal) Nature of Indigenous Peoples’ Agreements with Extractive Companies. In I. T. Odumosu-Ayanu & D. Newman (Eds.), Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources and the Law (pp. 11-30). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Odumosu-Ayanu, I.T. (2020). Land, Niger Delta Peoples, and Oil and Gas Decision-Making. In A. Cameron, S. Graben and V. Napoleon (Eds.), Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights and Relationships (pp. 311-346). Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Okafor, O., Ahmed S., Bawa S. & Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2020). Presence through Absence? Understanding the Role of Capital in the African Human Rights Action Plan. Journal of Modern African Studies, 58: 579-600.

Okafor O., Miyawa M., Bawa S., Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2020). Embrace and De-coupling: Assessing the African Union’s 2016-2019 Human Rights Action Planning Process Against the Conventional “Ideal”. Journal of African Law, 64: 143-172.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2019). Local Communities, Environment and Development: The Case of Oil and Gas Investment in Africa. In K. Miles (Ed.), Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law (pp. 480-503). Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2015). Indigenous Peoples, International Law, and Extractive Industry Contracts. American Journal of International Law Unbound, 109: 220-225.

Gathii J.T. and Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2015). The Turn to Contractual Responsibility in the Global Extractive Industry. Business and Human Rights Journal, 1: 69-94.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2014). Governments, Investors and Local Communities: Analysis of a Multi-Actor Investment Agreement Framework. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 15: 473-514.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2014). Multi-Actor Contracts, Competing Goals and the Regulation of Foreign Investment. University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 65: 269-311. 

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2014). International Investment Law and Disasters: Necessity, Peoples and the Burden of (Economic) Emergencies. In D. Caron, M. Kelly and A. Telesetsky (Eds.), The International Law of Disaster Relief (pp. 374-401). New York, Cambridge University Press.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2013). South-South Investment Treaties, Transnational Capital and African Peoples. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 21: 172-201.

Odumosu-Ayanu I.T. (2012). Foreign Direct Investment Catalysts in West Africa: Interactions with Local Content Law and Industry-Community Agreements. North Carolina Central Law Review, 35: 65-94.

Odumosu I.T. (2011). International Investment Arbitration and Corruption Claims: An Analysis of World Duty Free v. Kenya. Law and Development Review, 4: 88-129.

Odumosu I.T. (2011). The Settlement of Investor-State Oil and Gas Disputes in Africa. In F. Botchway (Ed.), Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development (pp. 395-422). Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.

Odumosu I.T. (2010). Towards Mechanisms for Assessing the Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment Law and Policy in Post-Conflict Rwanda. In Virtus Igbokwe et al (Eds.), Foreign Direct Investment in Post-Conflict Countries (pp. 157-194). London, Adonis & Abbey.

Gathii J.T. & Odumosu I.T. (2009). “Foreword: International Economic Law in the Third World. International Community Law Review, 11: 349-352.

Co-editor (with James Gathii), International Community Law Review Special Issue on “International Economic Law in the Third World” (2009) 11 International Community Law Review

Co-editor, (with Karin Mickelson and Pooja Parmar) International Community Law Review Special Issue on “Situating Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Inspirations, Challenges and Possibilities” (2008) 10 International Community Law Review

Odumosu I.T. (2008). Challenges for the (Present/) Future of Third World Approaches to International Law. International Community Law Review, 10: 467-477.

Mickelson, K., Odumosu I.T. & Parmar, P. (2008). Foreword. International Community Law Review, 10: 351-353.

Odumosu I.T. (2007). Locating Third World Resistance in the International Law on Foreign Investment. International Community Law Review, 9: 427-444. 

Odumosu I.T. (2007). The Law and Politics of Engaging Resistance in Investment Dispute Settlement. Penn State International Law Review, 26: 251-287.

Odumosu I.T. (2007). Transferring Alberta’s Gas Flaring Reduction Regulatory Framework to Nigeria: Potentials and Limitations. Alberta Law Review, 44: 863-902.

Odumosu I.T. (2007). The Antinomies of the (Continued) Relevance of ICSID to the Third World. San Diego International Law Journal, 8: 345-386.

Odumosu, I.T. (2007). “NGO Participation and Recent Transparency Measures in WTO Dispute Resolution: Lessons from FTAs and International Investment Jurisprudence” in Federico Ortino & Sergey Ripinsky eds., WTO Law and Process: Proceedings of the 2005 and 2006 Annual WTO Conferences (London: BIICL) 322.

Odumosu I.T. (2006). Revisiting NGO Participation in WTO and Investment Dispute Settlement: From Procedural Arguments to (Substantive) Public Interest Considerations. Canadian Yearbook of International Law, 44: 353-394.

Odumosu, I.T. (2006). Protecting Environmental and Health Rights in Africa: Mechanisms for Enforcement (Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law and Alberta Civil Liberties Research Center, Human Rights Paper No. 4)