The dean of the School of Law at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA), Prof Kofi Abotsi has been nominated as the corporate law expert of the year in Ghana in the Leaders in Law Global Awards 2023.
Abotsi announced his nomination on social media on Thursday (23 November).
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— Prof. E. Kofi Abotsi (@ProfAbotsi) November 23, 2023
About Kofi Abotsi
E. Kofi Abotsi is a professor of constitutional and comparative law and the Dean of the UPSA Law School in Accra.
Prior to his assumption of office at this post, he was the immediate past Dean of the GIMPA Law School, a position he held between 2012 and 2018.
He is a practicing lawyer with nineteen years standing at the Bar and managing partner of Axis Legal solicitors a firm of consulting barristers and solicitors, notary public, and public intellectual.
Abotsi has also held various public service positions, including serving on Constitutional Commissions and consulting for governmental and inter-governmental agencies and bodies including the IMF.
As a practitioner, Prof. Abotsi has extensive experience in advising a broad range of clientele including corporations and sovereign entities.
Abotsi has also served on a number of boards and advisory councils and played pivotal roles in shaping the policy direction of corporate entities in Ghana, including being the chairman of the advisory board of the Chief Executives Officers (CEO) Network of Ghana, (a body comprising the CEOs of some of the largest and notable corporations in Ghana).
Abotsi holds a bachelor of Laws Degree and Barrister-at-Law Certificate from the University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law respectively, a Master of Laws Degree from the Harvard Law School in the United States, and a doctorate from the University of Milan, Italy.
He is equally widely consulted in academia and has been a visiting scholar and guest lecturer in leading European and American universities including Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Fordham Law School and Indiana Law School, in the United States, and the University of Milan Biccoca, in Italy.
Abotsi has written extensively in leading peer review journals of law in the world in various areas of the law but largely concentrated in constitutional law, corporate law, and international trade law. He is a member of charitable organizations and professional bodies including the Ghana Bar Association and Rotary International and a fellow of the Institute of Directors, Ghana
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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