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Professor Kofi Kufuor

Professor

Economic integration in Africa, Law of the World Trade Organisation, Law and Development, New Institutional Economics, Human Rights in Africa, Law and Urbanization in Ghana

Department of Law & Criminology , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law

I teach the following modules on the LLM: 

  • Law and Development
  • Law of the WTO and Globalisation
  • International Environmental Law
  • Economic Integration in the Developing World

I am also Research Degrees Leader in the School of Law, Justice and Policing.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Warwick
  • LLM, London School of Economics
  • BA, University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Areas Of Interest

New Institutional Economics, Regionalism in Africa, Law of the World Trade Organisation, Human Rights in Africa, Law and Development, Law and Urbanisation.

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OVERVIEW

I am interested in the interdisciplinary approach to legal scholarship and thus I am keen to supervise doctoral students whose work in law also incorporates insights from history, economic theory, and sociology.

External roles

Ii have been external examiner for 23 doctorates in law across several universities including the University of Oxford, Kings College London, London School of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, Brunel University, University of Exeter Kingston University and the University of Pretoria.

CURRENT RESEARCH

I am the author of 5 Monographs and 40 refereed papers on a variety of legal issues.

  • The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (forthcoming) Routledge

Most recent research

I am currently researching the African Continental Free Trade Agreement for a monograph to be published by Routledge in 2022.

Monographs

1. African Unification: Law, Problems and Prospects (2016) Carolina Academic Press, Durham: North Carolina Book review excerpts by Geroge Boateng, 89 issue 3 Africa: Journal of the African Institute, (2019) pp.625-626

Kofi Oteng Kufuor has written a clear, factual piece set out in history, religion and political jurisprudence on the challenges, prospects and law towards the formation of a unified African government. The book's strength is its careful attention to the relationship between culture, normative behaviour and religion. It is a novel piece of work....... Kufuor’s book provides a fantastic perspective on African integration…. embroiled in history through politics, law, and religion. The debate between supranationalism and national sovereignty in this book will hold readers spellbound.

2. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Order (Routledge, 2024 forthcoming)

Journal papers

  • Judicial Work of the ECOWAS Court Justice From 1 January 2022 to 31 July 2033’ , 23 Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (2024 forthcoming)
  • ‘Pathways to African Unification: The Four Riders of the Storm’ 28 (1) Fundamina: A Journal of Legal History (2022) pp.66-103
  • ‘Institutions and Economic Fortunes in Comparative Perspectives’, 10 Zanzibar Yearbook of Law, (2020) pp.35-59

Research groups and centres

  • Member, Centre for Justice, Law and Society
  • Associate Director, Noon Centre

TEACHING

- LLB: Constitutional Law, Public International Law

- LLM: Law of the World Trade Organization, International Environmental Law, Economic Integration in Developing Countries, Law and Development

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

  • Consultant to the Department for International Development on antidumping cases
  • Consultant on Ghanaian law to Wilson Solicitors, London
  • Wiltshire Council Expert Report on Ghanaian Public Law
  • London Borough of Haringey Expert Report on Ghanaian family law (with Augustina Akoto).

Publications

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Full publications list

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