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Jake O. Effoduh (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario, Canada

Jake Effoduh has gained significant expertise in international human rights advocacy at various ranks of domestic, regional, and international legal systems. He has also informed the regulatory frameworks and policy formulation on artificial intelligence (AI) both for supranational organizations and domestic institutions in several countries including the United States, Brazil, and Nigeria. Prior to joining Lincoln Alexander Law, Jake served as Chief Counsel of Africa – Canada AI and Data Innovation Consortium, mobilizing AI and big data techniques to build governance strategies. He is also the project coordinator of Canada’s Rights Role in Sub-Saharan Africa, a multi-year interdisciplinary SSHRC-funded partnership between Canada and several African countries. Jake has held multiple academic fellowships including at the Centre for Law, Technology, and Society at the University of Ottawa; the Harvard Library Innovation Lab of Harvard Law School; the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance of the University of Cape Town; and the Center for Human Rights Science of Carnegie Mellon University.
Jake's research has been at the intersections of international law, human rights, and AI, with some of his works published by the Harvard Human Rights Journal; Oxford University Press; Journal of Robotics, AI & Law; African Journal of Legal Studies; and TWAIL Review. He is the Production Editor of the Transnational Human Rights Review, a peer-reviewed journal on transnational human rights normativity and practices. Jake has delivered lectures at various universities in Canada and at universities in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Spain, and the UK.

Professor Effoduh’s areas of expertise: Artificial intelligence, technology law, international human rights law, international institutions, international development law, non-profit law, discrimination and identities law, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).

Professor Effoduh is the author of the March 8, 2024 article, “The Role and Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Extremist Fuelled Election Misinformation in Africa” for Insights, for the Global Network on Extremism and Technology.

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