Lamin Daffeh
Dr Lamin Daffeh is an accomplished legal scholar and international development leader with more than two decades of experience across higher education, international law, and international development. He currently serves as Course Lead and Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University (UK). In this role, he provides academic leadership across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, teaches across a range of LLB and LLM modules, supervises doctoral research, and supports PhD progression and monitoring processes.
Dr Daffeh’s research and practice are rooted in international human rights law, with particular emphasis on the right to education as both a protective safeguard and a basis for legal and institutional responses to crimes affecting children. He is committed to scholarship with demonstrable public value, combining academic rigour with practice-informed insight. His work contributes to global policy debates, engages with UN-related processes, and supports institutional reform initiatives across Africa and the UK.
Beyond academia, Dr Daffeh has extensive experience advising governments, international organisations, and institutions on legal reform, policy development, governance frameworks, institutional partnerships, and capacity-building. He has designed and led interdisciplinary programmes across universities, NGOs, and the international development sector. He is also the founder of an international NGO and led the establishment of a special school in The Gambia, supporting uninterrupted education for orphans and other vulnerable children.