Kwadwo is Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Ghana (UG), Legon, Accra, where he teaches Public International Law and International Human Rights Law. He is also a representative lecturer at the LL.M Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Kwadwo is also an adjunct professor of international law with EUCLID University and adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Kwadwo completed his LLB at UG and his professional law degree at the Ghana School of Law and is a member of the Ghana Bar Association. He furthered his education at Dalhousie University and McGill University, both in Canada, for his LLM and DCL programmes, respectively. 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 Fellow at the School of Education, Lincoln University, UK, where he conducted research on “Building Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa.” He is member of the UN Working Group on Academic Freedom, responsible for developing the ‘Principles for Implementing the Right to Academic Freedom.’
Kwadwo is a former board member of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, Central European University, Vienna, Austria; an ambassador of the Magna Charta Observatory, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; and a former member of the 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.
E-mail: k.appiagyeiatua@acafafrica.org;
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