Augustina Akoto
Senior Lecturer
Course leader, senior lecturer
Department of Law & Criminology , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law
Augustina is the course leader for the LLB (Hons) Law and International Relations and a senior lecturer in law at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law.
Areas Of Interest
Legal Pluralism, Gender and the law, Comparative Family law, Family law in Ghana, Ethnic minorities and the law, decreasing the attainment gap, diversifying the curriculum.
OVERVIEW
Augustina has been responsible for the design and implementation on modules relating to the development of Legal Skills and also Family Law. Augustina is the module leader for: English Legal System, Child Law, Family Law, Mental Wealth: Introduction to Legal Method. She is also a member of the Athena Swan committee for the School and is also a member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Family Law, African Law, Legal Pluralism, Ethnic Minorities and the Law
Most recent research
- Child rights and child marriage in Ghana
MODULES
- Current teaching - Module leader: English Legal System, Child Law, Family Law, Mental Wealth: Introduction to Legal Method, Law and Society in Africa.
- Previous teaching - Skills for Academic Learning in Law, Legal System and Legal Reasoning, Comparative Legal Systems, Tort, Legal Communications and Business Law.
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications
- Marriage, the Law and Pluralism in Ghana in: Probert, R. and Thompson, S. (ed.) Research Handbook on Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.105-119