Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Budu is a Lawyer by profession and a legal academic. Since January 2013 he has been teaching various law courses at the Faculty of Law of the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra, Ghana. In September of 2013, Kwaku established The Justice Foundation, an apolitical, not-for-profit, non-religious human rights organization, with the sole purpose of increasing access to justice in Ghana. In this capacity, he has represented numerous indigent criminal defendants in the courts of Ghana on a pro-bono basis. Kwaku holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) and a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B) from the University of Ghana, and a Qualifying Certificate in Law from the Ghana School of Law. He also holds a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) in International Law & Justice and a Doctor of Juridical Science Degree (SJD) from Fordham University School of Law in the United States. Kwaku is a member and coordinator of the Judicial Service of Ghana’s Internship & Clerkship Committee, where he oversees the placement of law students to the various courts of Ghana since 2015. He has been the Head of Law Centers at the Faculty of Law, GIMPA, where he oversaw the management of the African Centre of International Criminal Justice (ACICJ) and the African Centre on Law & Ethics (ACLE) between 2019 and 2022. Dr. Agyeman-Budu teaches Constitutional Law, International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law and Intellectual Property Law at the GIMPA Faculty of Law, where he is also the Editor-in-Chief of the GIMPA Law Review. His research and practice interests include all of the aforementioned areas of law, as well as Criminal Law, International Criminal Law & Justice, Business & Human Rights and Legal Ethics.

Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Budu was appointed as Dean of the GIMPA Faculty of Law by the Governing Council of GIMPA on 1^st September 2022 for an initial three (3) year term.

International Law and Justice/Constitutional Law/International Criminal Law/Intellectual Property Law/Law and Ethics

International Law and Justice/Constitutional Law/International Criminal Law/Intellectual Property Law/Law and Ethics

Intellectual Property Law, Human Rights and Constitutional Law

• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, Constitutional Crises within the African union Framework: Legality, Legitimacy and Suitability Forthcoming in Journal of Law in Africa
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, COVID-19, Constitutionalism and Emergencies in Ghana Forthcoming in Review of Ghana Law (RGL)
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, The Politics of International Law and its impact on International Criminal Justice: The International Criminal Court (ICC), Africa & the way forward [2018] 4 Lancaster University Ghana Law Journal (LUGLJ) 93-140
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu & Kwame Frimpong, The Rule of Law and Democracy in Ghana since Independence: Uneasy Bedfellows? Co-authored article with Professor Kwame Frimpong, (2018) 18 African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ) 244-265.
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, Establishing the Office of The Special Prosecutor in Ghana: Mission Impossible? GIMPA Law Review (2017) 3(2): 158-178
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, The Right to Life: A Ghanaian Perspective (2017) 3 Lancaster University Ghana Law Journal (LUGLJ), 71-96
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu & Kwame Frimpong, Towards the effective implementation of the Economic and Organized Crime Act of Ghana: Lessons from the United States. GIMPA Law Review (2015) 1(1): 111-124
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu & Bettina Kwarteng, Rule of Law and Human rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: Reflections from Ghana Co-authored Chapter contribution with Bettina Kwarteng, (2022) in Democratic Governance, Law and Development in Africa: Pragmatism, Experiments and Prospects, 505-527
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu & Kwame Frimpong, Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Ghana under the shadow of Greed and Plunder: Reconciling Rhetoric with Reality Co-authored Chapter contribution with Professor Kwame Frimpong, (2020) Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu & Paolo Galizzi, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business and Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: An Overview Co-authored Chapter contribution with Professor Paolo Galizzi, (2018) Global Law: Legal Answers for Concrete Challenges (Maria Lucia Padua Lima & Jose Garcez Ghirardi eds.) ISBN: 978-85-362-8034-9
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, The Pursuit of Actual Equality: Women’s Property Rights in Ghana since Independence Chapter 8 (Addaney & Nyarko eds.) University of Pretoria Edited Volume, Ghana @ 60: Governance and Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Africa (2017): 121-143, ISBN: 978-1-920538-74-3
• Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, COVID-19, Constitutionalism and Emergencies under Ghana’s 1992 Fourth Republican Constitution (2020) Verfassungsblog https://verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-constitutionalism-and-emergencies-under-ghanas-1992-fourth-republican-constitution/

Kwaku Agyeman-Budu, Constitutionalism and COVID-19 in Ghana (2020) African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL) Blog https://ancl-radc.org.za/node/627

Email: kagyeman-budu@gimpa.edu.gh