Akoto, Augustina
- Contact details
- Activities and responsibilities
- Interests and Expertise
- Teaching: Programmes
- Teaching: Modules
- Current research and publications
- Research archive
Contact details
Position: Lecturer
Location: DH 005, Duncan House
Telephone: 020 8223 3392
Email: a.akoto@uel.ac.uk
Contact address:
School of Law and Social Sciences (LSS)
University of East London
Duncan House
High Street
Stratford
London E15 2JB
Brief biography
Augustina Akoto has a LLB and LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has previously worked as a Research Assistant at The University of Reading on a Nuffield funded project on Community of Property in England and Wales. She has also worked as a Research Assistant on Criminal Justice at the Institute of Public Policy Research and as a Student Pro-Bono Co-ordinator at the Solicitors Pro Bono Group.
Module leader for Skills for Academic Learning in Law.
Activities and responsibilities
- Schools Liaison
- UEL Law Clinic
Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise
- Comparative Family Law
- African Family law
- Legal Pluralism
- Gender rights
- Human rights
- Ethnic minorities and the law
Teaching: Programmes
- LLB
Teaching: Modules
- Skills for Academic Learning in Law
- Tort
- Comparative Legal Systems
- Business Law
- Family Law - module leader
Current research and publications
- Elizabeth Cooke, Augustina Akoto, Therese Callus and Anne Barlow : "Community of Property: a regime for England and Wales” [2006] The Nuffield Foundation.
Research archive
- Elizabeth Cooke, Augustina Akoto, Therese Callus and Anne Barlow : "Community of Property: a regime for England and Wales: Interim Report" [2005] International Family Law 133-137
- A. Akoto, The Commission on European Family Law? [2005] International Family Law 23-27
- A. Akoto and T Whitman, A Survey of Pro Bono at Law Schools and Universities (2003) Solicitors ProBono Group
