Professor Dakas Clement James was born in August 23, 1967 in Tokbet, Jipal District, Mangu Local Government Area, Plateau State.
He started his primary education at L.G.E.D. in Katul, Plateau State proceeded to Boys Secondary School Gindiri for his “O” Level and finished as the Best Graduating Student of the Year 1986
He attended University of Jos for his LLB and graduated with a First Class honour in law. He was awarded the University of Jos Award for the Best Student in Law, the Gally Brown-Peterside Award for the Best Student in Law, the Gally Brown-Peterside Award for the Best Student in Constitutional Law, the Prince Bola Ajibola Award for the Best Student in Jurisprudence, the Chief R. A. O. Akinjide Award for (being the first of) the Three Best Students in Law, and the Plateau State Government Scholarship.
He also holds an LL.M from the University of Jos, Nigeria, and was awarded the University of Jos Scholarship.
He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1990
He also obtained his LLM from both University of Jos and the New York University and his Ph.D from the University of Jos.
Professor. Daka was conferred with the prestigious professional rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), September 2012.
He rose from lecturing at the Faculty of Law, University of Jos, to the rank of Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence in October 2010
Professor Dakas SAN is a legal luminary of many outstanding first
Professor Dakas served as the Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice of Plateau State, Nigeria, from 2004-2006
He has authored and edited many books on law and others
Prof. Daka is a member of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN); International Association of Law Schools (IALS), Washington DC, USA; Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT); Nigerian Society of International Law(NSIL) and Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
Dakas is the second legal practitioner from Plateau State 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.
He is a visiting Professor (International Human Rights Law), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
