Dr. Opeyemi Olukotun is a law professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and a scholar specializing in intellectual property (IP) law. Her research examines the influence of international copyright law and policy on access to knowledge, innovation, education, health, human development, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her publications have appeared in leading journals, such as the European Intellectual Property Review, IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, and the Journal of Law and Medicine.
She was recently named a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. In this role, she advances the center’s work on copyright reforms to enhance education amid and beyond the pandemic. Dr. Olukotun belongs to several IP expert networks, including the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, the Academic Network on the Right to Research in International Copyright, the Open African Innovation Research Network, and the Intellectual Property and Innovation Researchers of Asia.
Before joining the University of Alberta in July 2022, she served as a Schulich Fellow at Dalhousie University, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and a sessional lecturer at Australian Catholic University. She also practiced as a lawyer at Nigeria’s premier commercial firm, Babalakin & Co.
Dr. Olukotun earned her LL.B from the University of Ilorin in Nigeria and her PhD from RMIT University in Australia.
