The Article Lab is an initiative at the Centre, headed by Professor Frederic Megret. It objective is to promote collaborative legal scholarship on human rights and legal pluralism. The Lab brings together law professors, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows to develop, research, and produce scholarship of publishable quality. The intuition for the Lab is that law, the humanities and even the social sciences remain quite wedded to an individual (or at best dual) author model whereas the sciences or medicine routinely author articles with many authors. The Lab is an attempt to break away from the norm of single legal authorship, affording members of the Centre the opportunity to co-sign jointly-knitted articles that align with the objectives of the Centre. This is in line with an increasing emphasis on collaborative and networked research which many are engaged through research projects, but that rarely translates into joint publications.
Coordinators
damilola.awotula [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Damilola Awotula (Dammy))聽is an experienced Nigerian attorney, doctoral candidate at the 涩里番 Law Faculty and recipient of FRQSC Doctoral Training Award. He coordinates the CHRLP Article Lab under the supervision of Professor Frederic Megret. His research interests are Law and Technology, International Economic Law, Law and Development, and Development financing.
He has received numerous academic recognitions; First Class Honours/Distinctions in the Diploma in Law, Bachelor of Laws, Barrister at Law, Master of Laws programs. He received the Red Scroll for his exceptional performance in the annual national professional Bar examination and was overall best in one of the core Bar Modules out of 5,700 Bar candidates. He has authored publications in his areas of interests, the latest, a forthcoming co-authored referred chapter 鈥淔inancing and Building Capacity for International AI Governance鈥� in Ann Fitz-Gerald et al (eds) Foundational Principles of AI Governance and Policy (Switzerland: Springer Cham, 2025).
Dammy has received numerous awards and recognitions from professional and academic institutions, among others, the OSULaw 鈥�91 Scholarship Award, International Bar Association Young Lawyer Conference Award (African Regional Forum), 涩里番 W.C. Macdonald Chair Graduate Award & Graduate Excellence in Law Award, Arther Seymour Schulich Law Scholarship, Dalhousie University, Roger Casement Fellowship, Ireland Department of Foreign Affairs, Adams-Burke Global Justice Fellow at the 涩里番 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Soci茅t茅 et culture, Quebec Government.
He is completing his doctoral project under the supervision of Professor Peer Zumbansen.
