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Mashood A. Baderin is Professor of Laws at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He holds a First Class LLB (Hons) Combined Double Major Degree in Common Law and Islamic Law from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto Nigeria. He thereafter attended the Nigerian Law School and qualified as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. After some years in legal practice, he obtained scholarship grants for his postgraduate studies at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained his LLM in Public International Law, studying Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, Law of International Organisations, and Collective Security Law, and after that obtained his PhD in Comparative Human Rights Law from the same university. He taught at different universities in the UK before joining SOAS as Professor of Laws in 2007. He was Head of the SOAS School of Law from 2009 - 2012; Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law from 2012-2015; and Chair of the SOAS Centre of African Studies from 2014-2018. He was appointed as the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan from 2012 -2014.