Iyiola Solanke

Solanke earned a bachelor's degree in German and Drama at the University of London, and graduated in 1992. She moved to the London School of Economics 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.[1] She joined the University of Michigan Law School as a Jean Monnet Fellow in 2007.[2][3]

Solanke investigates governance in European institutions, including the European Court of Justice.[1] She specialises in discrimination law and European Union law.[4] Solanke joined the University of Leeds in 2010.[5] That year, Solanke was one of the first people to be appointed Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple. She founded Temple Women's Forum North in 2013.[6] The forum exists to extend outreach from the Inner Temple to legal professionals in the North East.[7] Solanke investigates discrimination law as a stigma using sociological and socio-psychological theories.[8] She is a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University, where she teachers courses European Union law.[9] She has written about the need for proper rights of European Union nationals after the United Kingdom has left the European Union.[10]

Solanke was appointed to the University of Salamanca in 2017.[11] She was made a member of the Valuation Tribunal for England, which looks to support legal appeals for the population of the United Kingdom.[12] In January 2018 Solanke was appointed the Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, where she is working on the theory and practise of judiciary diversity in Europe.[13]

Solanke was appointed chair of the inquiry into the history of eugenics at University College London.[12][14] 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 racism.[12]

• "Professor Iyiola Solanke". University of Leeds: School of Law.