Research interests
- Copyright Law
- Linguistic Rights and Sovereignty of Minoritized and Indigenous Peoples
- Africa
- Antitrust-Competition law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Data privacy and technology
- Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
Damola holds a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany, a specialized LL.M program jointly administered by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, George Washington University, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Augsburg.
Currently, Damola is pursuing his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Professors Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and the Open African Innovation Research Network. His doctoral project examines, through a TWAIL lens, the essential facility doctrine within the framework of antitrust competition law, with the goal of addressing global copyright issues related to the availability and access to both text-based and digital educational materials published in Indigenous African languages of Nigeria and South Africa.
Since September 2020, Damola has been a research assistant and student fellow at the Open African Innovation Research Network. From 2023 to March 2025, he served as Deputy Lead of the Open AIR network’s New and Emerging Researchers Group. Since December 2023, he has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, where he is affiliated with IP Osgoode, an independent voice that explores legal governance issues at the intersection of intellectual property and technology.