Tolulope J. Falokun
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Assistant Professor of Law
Degrees
- LL.M., Harvard Law School
- B.L., Nigerian Law School
- LL.B., Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria
Biography
Professor Tolulope (Tolu) J. Falokun joined the university in 2024 as an Assistant Professor of Law. With a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School and significant technology, business, and commercial law experience, her research and publications focus on the intersection of emerging technologies and the law, exploring blockchain, NFTs, AI, data privacy, and private international law. She has research experience at Harvard University and was a research associate for a law firm in Manhattan, a technology law intern for a non-profit organization in South Carolina, an associate (corporate, commercial, and technology law) for Templars Law in Lagos, Nigeria, and a pro bono counsel for the Justice Development and Peace Commission in Nigeria.
She graduated in 2017 from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, earning a Bachelor of Laws degree, and in 2018, she earned a Barrister-at-Law certificate from the Nigerian Law School, graduating in the top 1% of her class with First Class Honors. She also earned an Introductory Certificate in Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London.
She has presented her research at various conferences both within and outside the US, including at the Governance of Emerging Technologies and Science Conference (GETS) 2025, the Conflict of Laws Workshop (CLAW) 2025, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference 2025, the Belmont Law Review Symposium 2025, the University of Windsor, Canada, Law & Entrepreneurship Conference 2025, the Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association (MALSA) Conference 2025, among others. She was a judge at the Canadian & American Transnational Law Moot 2025.
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Courses Taught
Sales Law
Law of Business Organizations
Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of World Legal Systems
Private International Law in the Digital Era
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Selected Publications
Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Disputes Relating to Cross-Border NFT Transactions- The Case for Uniform Private International Law Rules, 27 VA. J.L. & TECH. 49-99 (2023).
Nigeria (with I. Uju) in Competition in Africa Report 2022 (Baker McKenzie ed., 2022).
Cross-Jurisdiction Privacy Project Nigeria Data Guidance (with I. Ibiyemi, et al.) in Privacy Laws & Digital Advertising: Multi-Jurisdictional Overview and Implications 385-429 (Interactive Advertising Bureau ed., 2021).
Liability for Damage Caused by Artificial Intelligence (with I. Wilson) (2021).
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Selected Presentations
Speaker/Panelist, Governance of Emerging Technologies and Science Conference, Beus Center for Law and Society, Arizona State University, 2025. Panel: Blockchain and Beyond.
Speaker, Conflict of Laws Workshop (CLAW), University of Oklahoma College of Law, 2025.
Judge, Canadian & American Transnational Law Moot, University of Windsor Law School and 台湾色情网 School of Law, 2025.
Discussant, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference 2025, Consumer Law, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Workshop/Roundtable.
Speaker/Panelist, Law & Entrepreneurship Conference 2025, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada. Panel: The New Aesthetic Economy: Law, Tokens & the Global Art Marketplace.
Speaker, Belmont Law Review Symposium 2025: Data, Power and Security: Contemporary Issues in National Security and the Law.
Discussant, Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association (MALSA) Conference 2025. Panel: State Accountability, Governance and Rights Framework.