Rate My Professor Kenneth Asamoa Acheampong

Kenneth Asamoa Acheampong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Botswana. He earned a Master of Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, a Bachelor of Laws degree (Second Upper) from the University of Ghana, and a Diploma in Human Rights from Lund University, Sweden. He is also admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Hailing from a family in Kenyasi, Ahafo Region, Ghana, he served his compulsory national service at the Attorney-General's Chambers in Ghana. Acheampong has extensive lecturing experience in law across tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland (Eswatini), and at the University of Botswana since 23 April 2013. His teaching portfolio includes International Human Rights Law, Human Rights Law, Advanced Legal Theory and Jurisprudence, International Humanitarian Law (Introduction to the Law of Armed Conflict), Specific Delicts, Law of International Organizations, and Business Law. He previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the Lesotho Law Journal and the University of Botswana Law Journal.

Prof. Acheampong's research interests focus on Human Rights Law, particularly concerning women's rights, minorities' rights, children's rights, disability rights, and prisoners' rights; Refugee Protection Law at international and domestic levels; Constitutional Law, especially the protection of human rights; International Humanitarian Law; Advanced Legal Theory and Jurisprudence; and the role of International Organizations in human rights protection and promotion. He supervises postgraduate students in related areas such as Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law intersecting with International Human Rights Law, extradition law in the context of human rights and national sovereignty, and law and HIV/AIDS prevention from a human rights perspective. Key publications include 'Human Dignity and the Human Rights of Botswana Prisoners of Foreign Origin Living with HIV/AIDS' in Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2017, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 127-145); 'Human Rights, National Law and the Reduction of Statelessness' in Protection Frameworks for Refugees and Migrants in Southern Africa (SALC, 2018, pp. 25-49); 'CEDAW's General Recommendation No. 35: A Theoretical Analysis of Culture, Human Rights and Violence against Women' in Priorities for the Future (CIMPAD, 2019, pp. 56-67); and 'Upholding the Concept of the Universality of Human Rights: Some Current Jurisprudential Concerns Regarding the Zimbabwe Land Issue' in University of Nairobi Law Journal (2004, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 29-45).