Biography

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Abiodun Michael Olatokun FRSA LLM LLB

Politics

Abiodun is passionate about increasing the participation of groups that are under-represented in politics. Over the course of the 2016 Mayoral and Local Elections, then the EU Referendum, Abiodun led the campaigns ‘National Voter Registration Drive’ and ‘#Turnup’ which collectively registered almost 2 million voters. To ensure the campaigns delivered maximum impact, he conducted focus groups to better understand the reactions of young voters to the messaging employed by the Remain and Leave campaigns. UK Prime Minister Rt Hon David Cameron awarded Abiodun’s organisation a grant of £70,000 for this work.

Law

Abiodun is a human rights and public law specialist. A barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, he practises from 36 Public and Human Rights Chambers with the 36 Group headquartered in Gray’s Inn, London. Abiodun’s practice spans across all areas of human rights law, including employment, education, extradition, immigration, property and administrative law.

As an academic lawyer, Abiodun was a Research Leader of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from 2016 until 2022. He was the institute’s lead researcher on Citizenship and the Rule of Law for six years, as well as lead for Equality, Diversiy and Inclusion and Head of Public and Youth Engagment.

Abiodun’s writing has been influential in the formation of public policy in multiple jurisdictions including the House of Commons Justice Select Committee’s deliberations about techology in courts and the States Greffe of Jersey inquiry into the powers of their Children’s Commissioner.

Education

Abiodun is an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and formerly taught at London South Bank University. From 2017-2019 he was a member of the Teaching Excellence Framework Subject Pilot Panel for Business and Law. He was made Deputy Chair of that group in 2019.

In addition to his formal teaching duties Abiodun leads a Massive Open Online Course, ‘Citizenship and the Rule of Law’ which currently has over 15,000 students and is one of the top human rights courses in the world.