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As a lawyer of many years experience and an ardent academic, Dr. Stephen Kofi Sondem has a PhD in Law from the University of Essex, UK; an LLM from Temple University in Pennsylvania, U.SA; a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Law from The Hague; and an LLB from the University of Ghana.  Currently, he is the Head of the Public Law Department at the Faculty of Law and also teaches courses including International Human Rights Law, Ghana Legal System and Research Methodology, International Law and Jurisprudence. Before joining the Faculty, Dr. Sondem was the Principal Legal Officer and Acting Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in the Ashanti Region. Apart from his academic work, Dr Sondem also has enormous interest in law practice and is currently a partner in the law firm of Adansiman Chambers, where he specializes in litigation. He has served on several disciplinary committees across the University in advisory capacity.

Dr Sondem’s research interests are in human rights and development, economic, social and cultural rights and the customary aspects of African jurisprudence. His PhD thesis assessed the capacity of national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of socio economic rights, with a particular focus on Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). Among his publications are the following:

 1.  Stephen K. Sondem, The Implementation of Human Rights in the Context of Custom and Tradition: The Dialectics of African Values, (2005) KNUST Faculty of Law Journal, (Vol.1) 70

 2. Stephen K. Sondem, Resolution 1373: The Juridical Limits of the Powers of the UN Security Council, (2004) KNUST Faculty of Law Journal, (Vol.1) 40

 3. Stephen K. Sondem, National Human Rights Institutions: The Ghanaian Experience (2012) Journal for European Affairs, (Vol.16) 239