Akua Kuenyehia

Akua Kuenyehia ( * 1947 ) is a lawyer from Ghana. She taught from 1972 to 1996 as a lecturer and from 1996 to 2002 as a professor at the University of Ghana. Since 2003 she has been a judge at the International Criminal Court, where she served as Vice President from 2003 to 2009. Their term of office runs as scheduled by 2015.

Life

Akua Kuenyehia was born in 1947 and obtained in 1969 a LL.B. degree from the University of Ghana and three years later a Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. From 1972, she worked as a lecturer for the subjects of criminal law, international law and human rights, and from 1996 as a professor at the University of Ghana, where she also served as dean of the law school from 1996 to 2002. In addition, she taught, in particular to women's and gender issues in the law, at various universities abroad as a visiting professor, then at Temple University and at Northwestern University in the USA, at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and at the Imo State University in Nigeria.

In February 2003, she was elected judge of the newly established International Criminal Court in The Hague. Your election was held after nomination by the government of their home country on the list of proposed candidates for A with proven expertise in international law. After their first three years in office, she was re-elected in early 2006 for another nine years. From 2003 to 2009 she served as Vice President of the Court, to which it is assigned to the Appeals Division.

Works (selection)

• Women & Law in West Africa: Situational Analysis of some Key Issues Affecting Women. Legon 1998 ( as editor )
• Women and Law in West Africa. Gender Relations in the Family - A West African Perspective. Accra 2003
• Women and Law in Sub-Saharan Africa. Accra 2003 ( as co-author )