Irehobhude O. Iyioha is an Associate Professor, the inaugural Hon. Selwyn Romilly UBC Professor of Race and Access to Justice at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, and the UNESCO Chair on Health, Race and Human Rights. She is also a Full Professor, adj. in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry's Dossetor Centre for Health Ethics at the University of Alberta, a Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, where she teaches in the Osgoode PD Master of Laws Program and, most recently, a Faculty Associate at the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University.

She is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service, including the World Congress on Medical Law Award issued by the World Association for Medical Law for her formative work on legal effectiveness, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Award for Scholarly Work that Makes a Substantial Contribution to Legal Literature for her theory of Substantive Legal Effectiveness (SLE) and, most recently, the King Charles III Coronation Medal for "pioneer[ing] transformative programs supporting Black students, professionals and academics while advancing equity, education and justice for marginalized communities globally".