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Revision as of 14:02, 23 August 2019

Iyiola Solanke
at TEDxLondon Beyond Borders in May 2019
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of London
London School of Economics
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
University of Salamanca
University of Michigan Law School

Iyiola Solanke is an Academic Fellow in the Inner Temple and Chair in European Union law at the University of Leeds. She is interested in the European Union and racial integration, and founded the Black Female Professors Forum in 2017.

Early life and education

Solanke earned a bachelor's degree in German and Drama at the University of London, and graduated in 1992. She moved to the London School of Economics for her graduate studies, earned a master's degree[citation needed] and PhD in 2005. She worked as a Teaching Fellow at the London School of Economics.[1] She joined the University of Michigan Law School as a Jean Monnet Fellow in 2007.[2][3]

Research and career

Solanke investigates governance in European institutions, including the European Court of Justice.[1] She specialises in discrimination law and European Union law.[4] Solanke joined the University of Leeds in 2010.[5] That year, Solanke was one of the first people to be appointed Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple.[citation needed] She founded Temple Women's Forum North in 2013.[6] The forum exists to extend outreach from the Inner Temple to legal professionals in the North East.[7] Solanke investigates discrimination law as a stigma using sociological and socio-psychological theories.[8] She is a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University, where she teachers courses European Union law.[9] She has written about the need for proper rights or European Union nationals after the United Kingdom has left the European Union.[10]

Solanke was appointed to the University of Salamanca in 2017.[11] She was made a member of the Valuation Tribunal for England, which looks to support legal appeals for the population of the United Kingdom.[12] In January 2018 Solanke was appointed the Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, where she is working on the theory and practise of judiciary diversity in Europe.[13]

Solanke was appointed chair of the inquiry into the history of eugenics at University College London.[12][14] The inquiry was launched in November 2018, and will inform the University College London strategy on teaching and studying eugenics, as well as identifying its relationships with modern-day racism.[12]

Advocacy and public engagement

Solanke founded the Black Female Professors Forum in 2017.[15] She has written for the Huffington Post and is a speaker at TEDxLondon in 2019.[16][17]

Books

  • Solanke, Iyiola (2011). Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law. Routledge. ISBN 0415685478.[18]
  • Solanke, Iyiola (2015). EU Law. ISBN 1408228335.
  • Solanke, Iyiola (2017). Discrimination as Stigma – A Theory of Anti-Discrimination Law. ISBN 9781849467384.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b editor, European Institute web. "Dr Iyiola Solanke - Dr Iyiola Solanke - Visiting Staff - Who's Who - European Institute - Home". www.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Editors". eutopialaw. 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  3. ^ "Dr Iyiola Solanke" (PDF). London School of Economics. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  4. ^ "Professor Iyiola Solanke - A public health narrative for anti-discrimination law". Keele University. 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  5. ^ "Iyiola Solanke – Black Female Professors Forum". Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  6. ^ "| Temple Women's Forum". Inner Temple. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  7. ^ "Iyiola Solanke Eng". The International Independent Commission on the Death of Oury Jalloh. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  8. ^ "A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law". www.bloomsburyprofessional.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ "Visiting Professor Iyiola Solanke returns to teach European Union Law course | News & Events | Wake Forest School of Law". news.law.wfu.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  10. ^ "On the Frontline: Residency Rights and Non-EU Parents of British Citizens". Discover Society. 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  11. ^ "Meet Iyiola Solanke: our new faculty member". Global and International Studies. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  12. ^ a b c UCL (2018-12-05). "Inquiry launches into history of eugenics at UCL". UCL News. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  13. ^ "Iyiola Solanke". European University Institute. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  14. ^ Fazackerley, Anna (2018-12-06). "UCL launches inquiry into historical links with eugenics". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  15. ^ Mohdin, Aamna; Mohdin, Aamna. ""Political blackness": a very British concept with a complex history". Quartz. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  16. ^ "Iyiola Solanke | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  17. ^ "Professor Iyiola Solanke". TEDxLondon. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
  18. ^ Review of Making Anti-Racial Discrimination Law:
    • Marzo, Claire (2011-07-14). "Making Anti‐Racial Discrimination Law: A Comparative History of Social Action and Anti‐Racial Discrimination Law – By Iyiola Solanke". European Law Journal. 17 (4): 558–560. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0386.2011.00565_4.x.
  19. ^ Reviews of Discrimination as Stigma:
    • Quinn, Paul (2017-09-14). "Book review: Discrimination as Stigma: A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law". International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. 17 (3): 213–216. doi:10.1177/1358229117728621.
    • Linton, William (2018-07-06). "Discrimination as Stigma: A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law". Industrial Law Journal. 47 (3): 458–463.
    • Xenidis, Raphaële (2018). "Book Review: Iyiola Solanke, Discrimination as Stigma". European Journal of Legal Studies. 10 (2).
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