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
Intelligent Non-Fungible Tokens and National Security: Navigating the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Private International Law, Belmont Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
Blockchain Technology, the BRICS Pay Consortium, and the Private International Law Challenges of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Gonzaga Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2026)
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology in Creative Entrepreneurship: Intelligent Non-Fungible Tokens (iNFTs) and the Need for a Shift in Intellectual Property Law, (forthcoming 2026)
Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain Technology: Industry Self-Regulation as a Solution to Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Issues in Intelligent Non-Fungible Token (iNFT) Transactions, (forthcoming 2026)
The Digital Society and the Intellectual Property Law Ramifications of the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): An Empirical Socio-Legal Analysis, (forthcoming 2026)
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
Reviewer/Commentator/Panelist, Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting 2026, New Scholarship in European Law Panel. Paper Reviewed: Tosato & Odinet, Regulating Centralized Stablecoins: Comparing the EU Markets In Crypto-Assets Regulation (MICAR) and the US Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act), Notre Dame Law Review Reflection (forthcoming 2026).
Speaker/Panelist, 海角大神 School of Law Cybersecurity Panel. Spoke on the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and law, and perspectives for future lawyers.
Speaker/Panelist, Governance of Emerging Technologies and Science Conference, Beus Center for Law and Society, Arizona State University, 2025. Panel: Blockchain and Beyond.
Speaker, Gonzaga Journal of International Law Symposium 2025: BRICS+ and the Changing Technological and Financial World Order.
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.
Presenter, Conflict of Laws Workshop (CLAW), University of Oklahoma College of Law, 2025.
Discussant/Presenter, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Conference 2025, Consumer Law, Commercial Law, and Bankruptcy Workshop/Roundtable.
Panel Discussant/Presenter, Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association (MALSA) Conference 2025. Panel: State Accountability, Governance and Rights Framework.
Judge, Canadian & American Transnational Law Moot, University of Windsor Law School and 海角大神 School of Law, 2025.
Presenter, Central States Law Schools Association 2025 Scholarship Conference.