Iyiola Solanke is an Academic Fellow in the

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and Jacques Delors Professor of European Union Law at the

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, where she is a Fellow of

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. Previously, she was the Chair in

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at the

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. She is specialized in the

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and

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, and founded the Black Female Professors Forum in 2017.

Early life and education

Solanke earned a bachelor's degree in

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and

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at the

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, and graduated in 1992. She moved to the

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for her graduate studies, earned a master's degree and PhD in 2005. She worked as a Teaching Fellow at the London School of Economics. She joined the

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as a Jean Monnet Fellow in 2007.

Research and career

Solanke investigates governance in European institutions, including the

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. She specialises in

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and

. Solanke joined the

in 2010. That year, Solanke was one of the first people to be appointed Academic Fellow of the

. She founded Temple Women's Forum North in 2013. The forum exists to extend outreach from the Inner Temple to legal professionals in the North East. Solanke investigates discrimination law as a stigma using

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and socio-

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theories. She is a visiting professor at

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, where she teachers courses European Union law. She has written about the need for proper rights of European Union nationals after the United Kingdom has left the European Union. Solanke was appointed to the

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in 2017. She was made a member of the Valuation Tribunal for England, which looks to support legal appeals for the population of the United Kingdom. In January 2018 Solanke was appointed the

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Fellow at the

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, where she is working on the theory and practise of

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diversity in Europe. Solanke was appointed chair of the inquiry into the history of

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. The inquiry was launched in November 2018, and will inform the University College London strategy on teaching and studying eugenics, as well as identifying its relationships with modern-day

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Advocacy and public engagement

Solanke founded ''the Black Female Professors Forum'' in 2017. She has written for the

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and is a speaker at TEDx

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in 2019. In January 2018, Solanke joined a commission investigating the death of Oury Jalloh.

Books

* * *Reviews of ''Discrimination as Stigma'': * * * *

References

External links

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