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Dr. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law. He obtained an LLB from the University of Ghana and continued to the Ghana School of Law where he undertook his professional legal education leading to his call to the Ghana Bar in 2003.

He then proceeded to the University of Manchester where he graduated in 2004 with an LLM in International Business Law. As one of the founding lecturers of the Faculty, Dr Owusu-Dapaa has previously taught courses including Constitutional Law, Ghana Legal System, Jurisprudence, International Trade and Investment Law and Conflict of Laws. After many years of teaching experience, he left for Lancaster University in the UK where he successfully undertook a doctoral research for which he was admitted to a PhD in Law in 2016. During his time at Lancaster, Dr Owusu-Dapaa also taught on the University’s undergraduate law programme.

He has since resumed his post at the KNUST Faculty of Law where he currently teaches Company Law, Law of Contract and Law Clinic & Mooting at the undergraduate level; and the Law of Obligations, Health Care Law & Ethics and Advanced Corporate Law on the Faculty’s newly established LLM programme.

As an avid academic and researcher, Dr Owusu-Dapaa has taught at many Ghanaian universities including the University of Education, Winneba (Kumasi Campus). He also served as a Lead Researcher for the Constitution Review Commission of Ghana in 2010. His areas of academic research interest are Health Care Law, Comparative Corporate Law, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Reforms. He has published extensively in both international and national peer reviewed journals and made several conference presentations. His publications include the following:

  1. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Empowering Patients in Ghana: Is there a Case for a Human Rights-based Health Care Law? (2015) 1 Lancaster University Ghana Law Journal 142
  2.  Ernest Owusu-Dapaa & Ebenezer A. Bediako, Austerity in Civil Procedure: A Critical Assessment of the Impact of the Global Economic Downturn on Civil Justice in Ghana (2015) 4 Erasmus Law Review 210
  3. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Burying Smith v Selwyn [1914] 3 KB Deep in the Grave: The Case for the Abolition of the Rule Demanding Prosecution of Felony as a Precondition to Pursuit of Civil Action in Ghana 2012 Commonwealth Law Bulletin (Vol. 38) 697
  4. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Reforming Companies Code of Ghana: Which way to Go?  (2007) Commonwealth Law Bulletin (Vol.33) 209
  5. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Medical Malpractices and the Complexity of HealthcareLitigation: Is There a Case for No-Fault Compensation Regime in England And Wales? 2014 Lex Medicinae (Special Issue) Chap. 2
  6. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, International Encyclopedia for Medical Law: Ghana 1/04/2014 1st ed. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International. (131 pages)
  7. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Historical Development Of Health Care Law And Bioethics In England And Wales: A Symbiotic Relationship (2014) Medicine and Law 33(1): 22
  8. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, ‘Euthanasia, Assisted Dying and The Right to Die in Ghana: A Socio-Legal Analysis  (2013) Medicine and  Law, 32(4): 587
  9. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa & Samuel B. Adarkwah, The Doctrine of Ultra Vires and Protection of Shareholders, Creditors and Third Parties: A Balancing Act (2009)Commonwealth Law Bulletin 35(3):  535
  10. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Injecting Commercial Sense into Penal Enactment:  A Critique of the Fines (Penalty Units) Act , 2000 (Act 572)  (2006) KNUST Law Journal (Vol.3) 94
  11. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Facilitating Access to Credit in Ghana: The Role of Law since Independence in MENSAH-BONSU (ed.), GHANA LAW SINCE INDEPENDENCE (Accra: Black Mask Ltd, 2007) pp.97-118.
  12. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, The International Human Right to Health: What Does it Mean for Municipal Law in Ghana and Pakistan, (2014) Journal of Political Studies, 21(1): 315
  13. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, An Assessment of Evolution of Secured Credit in England and Beyond: Lessons for Ghanaian  (2007-2008) KNUST Law Journal (Vol. 4)  20
  14. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, An Exposition and Critique of Judicial Independence under Ghana’s 1992 Constitution (2011) Commonwealth Law Bulletin 37(3): 563.
  15. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, (Book Review):  E. B. FEUILLET, K. ORFALI & T. CALLUS (eds.) FAMILIES AND END-OF-LIFE TREATMENT DECISIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (Bruylant, 2013) in (2014) Medical Law International, Vol. 14(3): pp. 179-184.