Dr. Elkanah Babatunde

Elkanah Babatunde is a legal scholar and practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of international law, climate justice, and global inequality. He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. His research draws on critical legal theory and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) to examine how international legal regimes, particularly in climate governance, both reflect and reproduce structural inequities between the Global North and South.

In addition to his academic work, Elkanah has extensive public sector and legal practice experience, contributing to legislative and regulatory development in areas including environmental governance and economic policy. 

Elkanah's scholarship has appeared in leading journals and focuses on questions of equity in international law-making, climate technology transfer, and the institutional design of global governance regimes. His current research explores how distributive justice claims shape, and are often constrained within, international environmental law frameworks.