Eniola Akindemowo
Eniola Akindemowo
Professor of Law
Ph.D., University of London (Queen Mary);
LL.M., University of London (University College);
LL.B., University of Ife, cum laude;
Grad. Cert. (Higher Education), Monash University
LL.M., University of London (University College);
LL.B., University of Ife, cum laude;
Grad. Cert. (Higher Education), Monash University
Phone: (619) 961-4204
E-mail: eakindemowo@tjsl.edu
Before joining the faculty at TJSL, Professor Akindemowo taught law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, the University of East London and at Middlesex University in the UK. The author of numerous articles in student-edited and peer-reviewed journals, Professor Akindemowo wrote the first substantive book on IT law to be published in Australia, and co-authored another on E-Commerce and the Law. Her scholarly interests include comparative commercial law, e-money, m-payments and payment systems, anti-terrorism financing regulation, contractual and consumer arising from e-commerce, and the regulatory policy of emergent payments. A keynote or featured speaker at numerous conferences, Professor Akindemowo has been a visiting scholar of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, and a distinguished visitor at the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia).
Professor Akindemowo, who practiced commercial law before undertaking her LL.M. and Ph.D. research, is currently the Co-chair of the General Provisions Sub-committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) UCC Committee and an executive committee member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Internet and Computer Law Section. She is a member or associate of the American Bar Association (ABA), the National Bar Association, the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association and the International Technology Law Association. She is also a contributing editor of the AALS (Contracts Section) Contracts Prof Blog.
Courses include:
Contracts, E-Commerce Law, Payment Systems.
Scholarships
BOOKS
Information Technology Law in Australia (LBC Information Services Ltd., Thomas Publishing, 1999)
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS
Contract, Deposit or E-Value? Reconsidering Stored Value Products for a Modernized Payments Framework, 7 DePaul Bus. & Com. L.J. 275 (2009)
The Pervasive Influence of Anti-Terrorist Financing Policy: Post 9/11 Non-bank Electronic Money Issuance, 8 J. Int’l Banking L. & Reg. 289 (2004)
Electronic Payment Systems and Cyberbanking (with Wardrop, A.) in Electronic Commerce and the Law, (Jacaranda Wiley, 2d ed, 2001, 2003)
Electronic Money Regulation: A Comparative Survey of Policy Influences in Australia, the European Union, and the United States of America, 11 J.L. Inf. & Sci. 61 (2000)
Regulatory Issues in Electronic Money: A Legal-Economic Analysis, 1 Netnomics 53 (with Lee Boon-Chye)(1999)
The Role of Information Technology Law in Australian Internet Regulation, 3 Mac LR 1 (1999)
The Fading Rustle, Chink and Jingle: The Concept of Money and Electronic Value, 21 U. New S. Wales L.J. 466 (1998)
Copyright: The Unfurling of a Standard in the International Digital Frontier, 1997 Austl. Int’l L.J. 170 (1997)
Book Review: Computers and Law, 6 J.L. Inf. & Sci. 123 (1995)
Resourcing A Law Course: The Law Teacher's Dilemma in Nigeria, 19 Int'l Legal Prac. 57 (1994)
Electronic Fund Transfers at Point of Sale in the USA, 7 Computer L. and Prac. 24 (1990)
Presentations
It Has Been Quite A Journey But Where Are We Now? Assessing the Regulatory Policy of Stored Value Products, panel jointly hosted by the Deposit Products, and the Internet Delivery & Electronic Banking Sub-Committees of the Consumer Financial Services Committee, Business Law Section, American Banking Association (ABA) 2010 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2010
U.C.C. §1-302 Concept of Variability By Agreement: Just How Variable Are Articles 3 & 4, panel hosted by the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.) Committee, Business Law Section, American Banking Association (ABA) 2010 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2010
Contracts: The Future of an Amorphous Default Rule, Remarks at the William Boyd School of Law: AALS Conference Committee Spring Conference (Feb. 27, 2010)
Clarifying the Nature of SVPs: A First Step, Remarks at Touro Law School: International Business and Technology Conference (June 17, 2008)
Toggling Ahead! Assessing the Relevancy of Contracts Law to Emergent and Future SVC Models, Remarks at The Pacific McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development: 4th International Contracts Conference (Feb. 9, 2008)
Anti Terrorism Financing: Implications for Money Evolution in the Digital Era, Workshop on Terrorism and Law by the University of New South Wales Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, June 2005
A Comparative Study Of Payments Evolution, Legal Concepts And Regulatory Policy: Are We Ready For E-Value? Seminar, Indianapolis School of Law, Indiana University, Nov. 2004
Legal Framework for Mobile Business: Content Protection, Evolving Issues in IT Law: IT Meets Telecom: Mobile Business, Computer Law Association Annual European Conference, Munich, Germany, Nov. 2003
Legal Aspects of e-Payments, Workshop Presentation, International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Groups 9.6/11.7 Meeting, Stockholm, June 2003
Globalisation and the Effect of Risk Sensitive Perceptions of E-Money on Investment, Regulatory Policy and Financial Intelligence, Conference on the Response to Terror: New Laws, Rules and Strategies for IT and Telecom, Computer Law Association/Federal Communications Bar Association, Washington DC, Apr. 2002
Electronic Money Regulatory Policy in Australia, the European Union, and the United States, Seminar, The Cato Institute, Washington DC, Apr. 2002
Electronic Money Regulatory Policy in Australia, the European Union, and the United States, Global e-Business Legal Issues for the 21st Century Conference, 5th Biennial Pacific Rim Computer Law Conference (Computer Law Association, NSW Society for Computers and the Law, & International Bar Association Committee R), Sydney, Feb. 2001
Show Me the Money: A Search for Electronic Money Regulatory Influences, Seminar, Law Faculty, University of NSW, Nov. 2000
Australian Laws, Codes and Policy, Regulating E-Commerce UNSW CLE 2 day Commercial Seminar, Grace Hotel, Sydney, Oct. 2000
Elucidating Influences on Electronic Money Policy, International Association for Science & Technology Development (IASTED) LAWTECH 2000 Conference, San Francisco, USA, Oct. 2000
Electronic Money Regulation, Seminar, Law Faculty, University of Newcastle, Sept. 2000
Keynote Speech and Welcome, Regulating E-Business: Confronting Challenges in E-Commerce, Security, Copyright and IP, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, June 2000
Into the Digital Millennium: Proceedings Information Technology Law in Nigeria, National Workshop on Information and Communication Infrastructures, Policy, Plans and Strategies (NICI 2000), Abuja, Nigeria, Mar. 2000
The Role of Information Technology Law in Australian Internet Regulation, The Legal Challenge of New Technologies: E-Commerce and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age, Commercial Seminar, Sydney, Oct. 1999
Information Technology in Australia, Seminar, Law Faculty, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Apr. 1999
Computer-related Intellectual Property Issues: The Intersection between Two Fields, Academics Forum, Australasian Intellectual Property Conference, Coolangatta Queensland, Mar. 1999
Lee, Boon-Chye & Longe-Akindemowo, Olujokè, Regulatory Issues in Electronic Money: A Legal-Economics Analysis, 1st Berlin Internet Economic Workshop, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 1998
Chair’s Welcome and Address: IP, IT, Contracts and Trade Practices, First Annual In-House Lawyers Conference, The Regent, Sydney, Feb. 1998
Future Trends in Payment Systems: A Working Brief of Issues for Consideration, Working Brief prepared for the AUSTRAC/OSCA Electronic Commerce Task Force, Trends in Payment Systems Working Group, (TIPS) July 1996
Internationalisation, Computerized Data and Copyrights: The Choice of an Imperfect Standard, Intellectual Property Session, Australasian Law Teachers Association, 50th Anniversary Conference, Melbourne, 1995
The Marriage of Computers and the Law: Has the Threatened Divorce between Technological Advances and Legal Development Been Averted? Seminar, Faculty of Commerce, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Feb. 1994
Resourcing a Law Course: The Law Teacher’s Dilemma in Nigeria, Academic’s Forum, International Bar Association, Section on Business Law’s 11th Biennial Conference, New Orleans, USA, Oct. 1993
