Tawiah Modibo Ocran

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Professor Justice Tawiah Modibo Ocran is an academic and a Supreme Court Judge in Ghana.

Early life and education

He was a student at St. Augustine's College in Cape Coast and then later at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained the LL.B. degree. cite news |url=http://www.peacefmonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5994&Itemid=2 |title=Race to succeed Justice Acquah hots up |accessdate=2007-04-19 |date=28 March 2007 |work=Official website of the Peace FM radio |publisher=Peace FM online] He was well known to have affiliations with the Convention People's Party of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah during the First Republic. Modibo Ocran proceeded to the United States of America (USA) for post graduate studies. He obtained the M.L.I., (Comparative Law) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Career

Prof. Ocran has worked as the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Centre. In January 1977, he was appointed to the Committee on "Unigov" which drew up the programme for implementation of a “National Government instead of Unigov”, established by the Supreme Military Council government. [cite web |url=http://www.ghana.gov.gh/NRC/VOL.%204%20Chpt.%205%20Professional%20Bodies.%20CIV%20SOC.pdf |title=Professional Bodies (other than legal) and Civil Society group |accessdate=2007-04-19 |date=October 2004 |format=pdf |pages=pp 271,272|work=National Reconciliation Commission Report - Volume 4 Chapter 5 |publisher=Ghana government]

International organizations

He was a Legal/Economic Affairs Officer of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa Office, Ethiopia from 1978 to 1981. cite news|url=http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=3155&section=1 |title=Down to 2 |accessdate=2007-04-19 |date=19 April 2007 |work=Official website of The Statesman newspaper |publisher=The Statesman] He was also a member of the Constitutional Commission which drew up the 1979 Ghana constitution for the Third Republic. Prof. Modibo Ocran was the senior political affairs officer with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) for the former Yugoslavia between 1994 and 1995.

Academia

Modibo Ocran was once a Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School, Los Angeles. Between 1984 and 2004, he was the Dean’s Club Research Professor at the University of Akron [http://www.uakron.edu/law/ School of Law] in the USA. He has also been a law lecturer at the University of Zambia. Since 2003, Prof. Modibo Ocran has been Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Ghana.

He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana by President John Kufuor in 2004.

Associations

He is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, American Association of International Law and International Third World Legal Studies, erves on the Executive Board of the AALS Section on Africa and is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association.

Notes

ee also

*Judiciary of Ghana
*Supreme Court of Ghana

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