Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh to keynote AGLA's 1st Annual Dinner Dance on August 3.

H. Kwasi Prempeh, Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, will keynote AGLA's first dinner dance to be held in Clark, New Jersey on August 3, 2013. Professor Prempeh, who teaches constitutional and corporate law courses at Seton Hall Law, is also a Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development and has written and been engaged extensively on issues of constitutionalism, governance, legal policy, and democracy in Ghana and Africa generally. In 2011, Professor Prempeh was a Visiting Professor at the newly established law school at GIMPA in Accra, Ghana.

A graduate of Yale Law School where he served as a teaching fellow and on the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal as a Note Editor, Kwasi also holds an MBA from Baylor University and a B.Sc. from University of Ghana Business School. Prior to joining the Seton Hall Law faculty in 2003, he worked in private practice as a law firm associate, first, at O'Melveny & Myers and, later, at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, both in Washington, D.C. Professor Prempeh's remarks will be on the theme "The New African Renaissance: What Role for the International African Lawyer?" The guest of honor is H.E. Ken Kanda, Ghana's permanent representative to the UN. “Professor Prempeh’s work both in the US and in Ghana puts him in a unique position to speak to the role of African lawyers on the continent,” said Jennifer Opoku-Asare, an AGLA member serving on the planning committee. “I look forward to hearing his thoughts,” she added.

About twenty (20) members of the Ghana Bar Association will attend this year’s event from Ghana. AGLA looks forward to connecting with its Ghanaian counterparts to share perspectives. Also in attendance will be the association’s new chapter recently constituted in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. AGLA members practice in various areas of the law throughout the US at state and federal levels. The August 3 event will honor Professor Victor Essien of Fordham Law School.

AGLA is set up to provide a forum for Ghanaian lawyers in the United States to address matters relevant to their profession, to advocate and support the advancement of Ghana and its people while serving as a dominant link between Ghana and the United States.

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