Aluko & Oyebode, a top-tier full-service law firm in Nigeria, co-hosts the International Law Association (Nigeria Branch) Africa Policy Dialogue alongside the International Law Association (Nigeria Branch), the Federal Ministry of Justice of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Embassy in Vienna. The dialogue is held on August 20, 2026, in Vienna, Austria as a high level side event during the 82nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association (ILA).

Themed “Peace, Prosperity and the Future of International Law: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics in a Fragmenting World,” the dialogue will convene senior government officials, diplomats, legal practitioners, policymakers, academics, and institutional leaders to examine the geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts reshaping the world and their implications for Africa.

The event will open with remarks from Her Excellency, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, Ambassador of Nigeria to Austria; Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, Attorney-General of the Federation; Professor Damilola Olawuyi, SAN, President, International Law Association (Nigeria Branch); and Mr. Tunde Fagbohunlu, SAN, Senior Partner, Aluko & Oyebode.

The dialogue will feature two high-level panel discussions. The first session, “Africa Leaders’ Dialogue: Navigating Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Change – Africa’s Strategic Choices for Sustainable Development,” will be moderated by international journalist and Co-Founder of Moderate The Event, Femi Oke, and will feature Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice; Mrs. Patience Okala, National Coordinator, Nigeria’s AfCFTA Coordination Office; Mr. Olivier Pognon, Director and Chief Executive Officer, African Legal Support Facility and Umaru Napoleon Koroma, Deputy Minister of Mines, Sierra Leone.

The second session, “The Role of International Law in a Fragmenting World,” will be moderated by Babatunde Fagbohunlu, SAN, Senior Partner, Aluko & Oyebode, and Dr. Eghosa Ekhator, Associate Professor of International Environmental Law, University of Derby. Panellists include Professor Olabisi Akinkugbe, Purdy Crawford Chair in Business Law and Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University; Mr. Ahmed Essa Alsulaiti, President of the International Law Association – Gulf Cooperation Council Branch, lawyer and faculty member at the College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar; and Professor Marie-Claire Cordonnier Segger, Vice President, ILA Canada, and Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge.