Dr KWADWO APPIAGYEI-ATUA
LL.B (Hons) (UG), BL (GSL), LL.M (Dal), DCL (McGill)
Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua is a member of the Ghana Bar and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra where he teaches Public International Law and International Human Rights Law. He is also the representative Lecturer from University of Ghana in the LL.M Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation course, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Kwadwo obtained his LL.B (Hons) from the University of Ghana, Legon; LLM from Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and his Doctor of Civil Law from McGill University. He then proceeded to do his post-doctoral fellowship at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland on a Bank of Ireland fellowship. Kwadwo just completed his Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at Centre for Educational Research and Development, Lincoln University, UK where he conducted a research on “Building Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa.” He is a Global Ethics Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, USA and a member of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Thematic Group 3 on "The Challenges of Social Inclusion: Gender, Inequalities and Human Rights." Additionally, Kwadwo serves as the Programme Coordinator of the West Africa Executive Course on Human Rights and Drug Policy which is run by the School of Law, University of Ghana and supported by the Open Society Institute for West Africa (based in Dakar, Senegal) and the Global Drug Policy Programme of the Open Society Foundation in New York, USA.
Dr. Appiagyei-Atua is a Member and the Director of Research for Youth For Human Rights Africa.