Prof John-Mark Iyi obtained his LLB (Hons) and BL (Hons) from the University of Benin and the Nigerian Law School, in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2001 and taught briefly at the Nigerian Police College, Maiduguri between 2001 and 2002. In 2003, he obtained a Certificate in Peace Research from the University of Oslo and received his LLM from the University of Ibadan in 2008. He has also completed the All Africa Course on International Humanitarian Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in 2010.

Prof Iyi received his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2014 where he was also a Webber Wentzel Scholar and an Associate of the Wits Programme in Law Justice and Development in Africa. From March 2014 to June 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law, University of Johannesburg from where he joined the University of Fort Hare in 2016 as a Senior Lecturer. He served as an Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Venda from July 2017 to December 2019. Prof Iyi joined the University of the Western Cape in January 2020 as an Associate Professor.

He is a Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Law and Security in Africa (Accra) and a member of several local and international professional bodies including the Academic Council on the United Nations System. His primary research interest lies in public international law and legal theory, international peace and security, human rights, terrorism, African Union and ECOWAS laws.

Boko Haram and International Law
Boko Haram and the Ambivalence of International Legal Response
Democracy and the Development Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging Powers and the Operationalisation of R2P in Africa
Fair Hearing without Lawyers? The Traditional Courts Bill, Legal Pluralism and the Reform of Customary Justice System in South Africa
Humanitarian Intervention and the AU-ECOWAS Intervention Treaties under International Law
Introduction: Boko Haram and International Law:
Issues on South Sudan as a New State and Somalia as a Failed but Re-Emerging State
Kenyan Post-Election Crisis: A Critical Appraisal
Obama’s Africa Policy On Human Rights, Use Of Force and Humanitarian Intervention: In Whose Interest?
On the Brink? The Nigerian State and the Making of Boko Haram
Re-Thinking the Authority of the UN Security Council to Refer Nationals of Non-Party States to the ICC
Somali Piracy and UNSC Resolutions 1816-1851
The AU/ECOWAS Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention Legal Regimes and the UN Charter
The Duty of an Intervention Force to Protect Civilians
The Legal Framework for Sub-Regional Humanitarian Intervention in Africa
The Role of Courts in the Protection of Civilians
The Role of the African Union and the United Nations in the Operationalisation of R2P in Africa
The Role of the African Union Continental Early Warning System in Preventing Mass Atrocities
The Weaponisation of Women by Boko Haram and the Prospects of Accountability

Reflections on transitional justice in Africa during Covid-19