Favour Borokini (2022 cohort) is a third-year PhD candidate at the Horizon CDT. Her research focuses on ethical concerns in the design and use of avatars. She holds a Law degree from the University of Benin, Nigeria, and brings a strong legal foundation to her interdisciplinary work. Favour has explored a range of issues at the intersection of law, technology and human rights—particularly women’s rights, the impact of AI on African women and the experiences of African women working in AI across various sectors.
On 13 June 2025, Favour presented at the Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group’s fifth interdisciplinary Annual Workshop, held at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. This year’s theme, Embodied and Disembodied Feminist Realities, brought together scholars and practitioners to explore feminist legal concerns in both material and conceptual spaces. Embodiment remains central to feminist legal theory, especially with reproductive health, obstetric violence, violence against women, climate change, and gender and sport. Alongside this, the disembodied aspects of feminist jurisprudence are becoming increasingly urgent, including the regulation of deepfakes, AI and structural inequality.
Speaking on the panel Accessing Feminist Jurisprudence in Contested Spaces, Favour delivered a talk titled “Legal Embodiments: A Socio-Legal Exploration of the Experiences of African Women Law Doctoral Candidates.” She shared early findings from her ongoing study of African women lawyers in the UK, highlighting the complex and often overlooked realities they face within academic and legal environments.
Her presentation offered a powerful and timely contribution to the workshop’s dialogue, weaving together themes of identity, access, power and visibility in feminist legal thought.
