Prof Dakas C. J. Dakas is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Jos. He is also a former Attorney-General of Plateau State.

Professor Dakas SAN is a legal luminary of many outstanding firsts. He was one of only two First Class Honours law degree holders from the University of Jos since its establishment in the mid-1970s; the first, and so far the only, academic to be appointed Attorney-General of Plateau State; the youngest person to hold the office of Attorney-General of Plateau State; the youngest Nigerian professor to be conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); the fourth professor of law from the entire northern region of Nigeria to be conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); the youngest academic to occupy a Distinguished Professor of Law Chair in a Nigerian tertiary institution; One of only four Nigerian professors of Law to hold the office of Attorney-General and to be conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

Prof. Dakas is also a published author having authored, “International Law on Trial: Bakassi and the Eurocentricity of International Law” and “From Constitutions to Constitutionalism: A Constitutional Imperative in Nigeria” as well as several other journals and papers published and delivered both locally and internationally.