International Consortium for Law and Development

Knowledge in the Service of Democratic Social Change

Raymond Atuguba

Raymond Atuguba teaches Conflict of Laws, Administrative Law and Commercial Law at the Law Faculty and Business School in the University of Ghana. He is a co-founder, and the Acting Executive Director, of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC); a human rights and development organisation that seeks to use law as a tool for national development.

Professor Atuguba earned his Doctorate from Harvard Law School. (Raymond's doctoral thesis on "Institutional Continuities: The Police in the Regulation of Public Order and Alcohol in Ghana" is available with Harvard Law Library and through the Seidmans. Raymond is currently working on an article and a bill based on part of his doctoral dissertation on the Police.) While at Harvard, Raymond audited a Legislative Drafting course run by Ann and Bob Seidman at Boston University School of Law. Since leaving Boston, Mr. Atuguba has continued his relationship with the Seidmans. In 2003, Raymond participated in Boston University's Distance Course on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change with a group of his students. Through the Distance Course, Professor Atuguba's group drafted a research report and a bill on the regulation of muslim marriages. The co-founder of our centre, the LRC, who has just been elected Member of Parliament, will forward the draft as a private member's bill in Parliament in April 2005.

This January, the LRC will receive 20 interns from Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, Stanford Law School, and the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. In the summer other students will join us from Indiana Law School and other schools. They will work with Ghanaian University students on law and development issues-this winter healthcare issues.