Raymond Akongburo ATUGUBA is Professor of General Jurisprudence and Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, where he has taught since 2002. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law and the Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Harvard Law School (2018–2019), a Bok Visiting International Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Spring 2024) and has taught over 40 related courses at different universities in Africa, Europe, the United States of America, Canada, and Australia. His research interests are in Policy, Law and Development in the Global South; Constitutional and Administrative Law in Africa; and Transnational Perspectives on Human Rights, Law and Organising and Community Lawyering.
Professor Atuguba is a graduate of the University of Ghana and of Harvard Law School, where he obtained a master of laws degree (LL.M.) and did doctoral studies (S.J.D). Professor Atuguba has also worked in the public sector (he was one time the Executive Secretary to the Constitution Review Commission of Ghana and later Executive Secretary to the President of Ghana); the private sector (he is founder and former Team Leader of Law and Development Associates (LADA) and is Managing Partner of Atuguba and Associates); and the non-profit sector (he is co-founder, former Executive Director and former Board Chair of the Legal Resources Centre and Board Chair of LADA Institute).
Professor Atuguba has over 100 publications, been engaged in over 100 research and advocacy projects and produced over 100 research and technical reports. In the last 25 years, he has delivered over 500 papers and presentations on all continents of the world, and been involved in the audit, review, and drafting of over 500 constitutions, policies, main legislation, strategies, regulations, guidelines, manuals, and procedures, mainly in African countries and around the world.
He has consulted for many African governments (The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe, etc.) and major local and international development organisations and agencies (The UN, UNDP, UN-OHCR, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNODC, UNMIL, FAO, The World Bank, ILO, IOM, EU, AU, ECOWAS, USAID, DFID (UK-AID), GIZ (GTZ), DANIDA, FES, KAF, ICHRP, OXFAM, IBIS, IIED), and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) (ActionAid International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, CARE International, Plan International, Ford Foundation, OSI, OSIWA, etc). He has also designed, led or co-led over 100 training programmes and workshops and chaired or sat on over 100 boards and committees, national and international.