Akua Kuenyehia

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Akua Kuenyehia (*  1947 ) is a lawyer from Ghana . She taught from 1972 to 1996 as a lecturer and from 1996 to 2002 as a professor at the University of Ghana . From 2003 to 2015 she was a judge at the International Criminal Court , where she served as vice-president from 2003 to 2009.

Life

Akua Kuenyehia was born in 1947 and gained 1969 an LL.B. degree at the University of Ghana , and three years later a Bachelor of Civil Law at Somerville College of the University of Oxford . From 1972 she worked as a lecturer for the subjects of criminal law , international law and human rights and from 1996 as a professor at the University of Ghana, where she also served as dean of the law faculty from 1996 to 2002 . In addition, she has taught, in particular on women's and gender issues in law , as a visiting professor at various universities abroad, for example at Temple University and Northwestern University in the USA , at Leiden University in the Netherlands and at Imo State University in Nigeria .

In February 2003 she was elected judge at the newly established International Criminal Court in The Hague . Your choice took place after nomination by the government of your home country via the proposal list A for candidates with proven competence in the field of international law. After her first three-year term in office, she was re-elected for a further nine years in early 2006. From 2003 to 2009 she served as the Vice-President of the Court of Justice where she was attached to the Appeals Division.

Works (selection)

  • Women & Law in West Africa: Situational Analysis of some Key Issues affecting Women. Legon 1998 (as editor)
  • Women and Law in West Africa. Gender Relations in the Family - A West African Perspective. Accra 2003
  • Women and Law in Sub-Saharan Africa. Accra 2003 (as co-author)

literature

  • Kuenyehia, Akua (Ghana). In: Election of the Judges of the International Criminal Court. Addendum: Alphabetical List of Candidates (with Statements of Qualifications). Document no. ICC-ASP / 1/4 / Add.1. Edited by the Assembly of the Parties to the International Criminal Court, 2002, pp. 141–151

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personal data
SURNAME Kuenyehia, Akua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian lawyer and judge at the International Criminal Court
DATE OF BIRTH 1947