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Dr. Mohamed Sesay (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Coordinator of the African Studies Program at York University. He is also a member of the UKRI GCRF Gender Justice and Security Hub hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Mohamed Sesay graduated from McGill University with a Ph.D. in Political Science, specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. His research and teaching focuses on the rule of law, legal pluralism, customary justice, transitional justice, international criminal justice, and postconflict peacebuilding and reconstruction in sub-Saharan Africa. His works have appeared in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as Third World Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, African Affairs, European Journal of International Security, International Journal of Transitional Justice, International Studies Perspectives, and Cooperation & Conflict. Mohamed Sesay’s monograph, Domination through Law, is the winner of the 2021 International Studies Association’s Lee Ann Fujii Book Award.