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Dr. Rowland Atta-Kesson

Lecturer (HoD, Private Law)
Faculty: Law School
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Dr. Rowland Atta-Kesson adds to the UPSA Law School expertise in law teaching, law practice in Ghana, and international development finance legal consultancy. Prior to joining the UPSA Law School, he had taught several law courses including Company Law, Commercial Law, Administrative Law, and Agricultural Law, as a part-time lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) and the University of Ghana School of Agriculture (UGSA).

Between 2010 and 2012, he worked with the Constitution Review Commission (CRC) of Ghana as manager of the Research and Legal Unit, managing a research team of over 20 researchers and assistants. He co-authored two chapters of the CRC report respectively on the Executive, and Lands and Natural Resources. At the international level, he worked as a legal consultant with the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) from 2013 to 2016. During this period, he researched and wrote a publication for the General Counsel titled “Fostering Opportunity Through Development Finance In Africa; Legal Perspectives From The African Development Bank.” (Published in the World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5). He also worked as a supervising researcher on a 2009- 2010 World Bank research study on "Ghana Uses and Users Study" that tracked the progress of cases in Ghana's high court, as part of a series of studies in selected African countries including Ghana and Ethiopia.

At the UPSA Law School, Dr. Atta-Kesson currently heads the Private Law Department and teaches Jurisprudence, Procurement Law, and Administrative Law. In past academic years, he taught Constitutional Law, Ghana Legal System, and Tort Law. Dr. Atta-Kesson’s research interests lie within the confluence of law and political theory. He aims at contributing to policy process research for law and institutional reforms in Ghana. His recent publication is a paper titled Reforming Campaign Finance Laws in Ghana: A ‘Political Party Bank’ Proposal (published at UCC Law Journal. Volume 1 Issue 2 Dec. 2021, pp. 187-220). Other recent works include a gap analysis research consultancy report on the justice sector in Ghana.

He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from the Indiana University in the USA. And his doctoral dissertation titled “Corporatizing Administrative Law for Economic Constitutionalism in Ghana: An African Legal Study” examined how law and institutions incentivize or restrain doing business in Ghana. He also holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International and Comparative Law from the same university. He is admitted to the Ghana Bar with a Barrister-at-Law (BL) and solicitor qualifications from the Ghana School of Law in 2005, and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Ghana in 2002.