Prof. Dr. Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua

He also serves as adjunct professor, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa (LL.M, Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa); EUCLID, an intergovernmental treaty-based institution in The Gambia; and, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

He is the founding Dean and former Consultant Dean, SDD University for Business and Integrated Development Studies (Wa, Ghana). Kwadwo is a member of the Ghana Bar Association. He completed his LLB at UG and his professional law degree at the Ghana School of Law and obtained his LLM and Doctor of Civil Law degrees respectively from Dalhousie University and McGill University, both in Canada. He was a Bank of Ireland Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland and a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at the Centre for Educational Research and Development, Lincoln University, UK where he conducted research on “Building Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa.”

Kwadwo has served as a consultant for various inter-governmental organisations and international civil society organisations. He is a board member, Africa Network for Clinical Legal Education (ANCLE); Ambassador, Magna Charta Observatory, Bologna, Italy; board member, Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, King’s College London, UK; and, until recently, board member, Academic Freedom Committee of the International Studies Association, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. His research interests are post-colonial analysis of the historiography of international law, human rights and academic freedom.