Kwadwo is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the School of Law, University of Ghana (UG), Legon, Accra and, the Regional Director, Africa Coalition for Academic Freedom, based in Accra, Ghana. He is adjunct professor in the LL.M Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; EUCLID, an intergovernmental treaty-based institution based in The Gambia; and, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
Kwadwo is the founding Dean and former Consultant Dean, SDD University for Business and Integrated Development Studies (Wa, Ghana) and a member of the Ghana Bar. He completed his LLB at University of Ghana, his professional law degree at the Ghana School of Law and his LLM and DCL degrees from Dalhousie University and McGill University, respectively, both in Canada.
Kwadwo served as a Bank of Ireland Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland and as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at the Centre for Educational Research and Development, Lincoln University, UK where he conducted research on "Building Academic Freedom and Democracy in Africa." He has served as a consultant for various inter-governmental organisations and international civil society organisations.
He is a board member of the Africa Network for Clinical Legal Education (ANCLE), an Ambassador of the Magna Charta Observatory, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy and a board member of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, Kings College, London. Until recently, he served as a member of the Academic Freedom Committee of the International Studies Association, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. His research interests are post-colonial analysis of the historiography of international law, human rights and academic freedom.
