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Dr. Richard Frimpong Oppong
Richard Frimpong Oppong worked in Law until September 2011.
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Lecturer in Law
Degree: LLB, BL(Ghana) LLM (Cantab) LLM (Harvard) PhD(University of British Columbia)
Current Teaching
Law 297: Introduction to Comparative Law
Law 221: European Private International Law
LL.M 207: International Business Law & Institutions (WTO)
Research Interests
Career Details
Dr. Richard Frimpong Oppong received his Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Ghana, where he graduated with first class honours in 2001 and was awarded the VALCO book award for best graduating student in commercial law. In 2003, he qualified as a barrister in Ghana after completing the professional law programme at the Ghana School of Law. There, he was awarded the coveted and prestigious John Mensah Sarbah Prize for the best graduating student. He holds a first class Master of Law degree, in Commercial Law, from the University of Cambridge, where he was nominated Senior Scholar of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, in 2003/4. He also received the David Pearl Prize for excellence in the LLM examinations. He holds a second Master of Law degree from the Harvard Law School. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in law degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He is a specialist on private international law. He focuses particularly on Commonwealth African countries. He has published many articles on the subject in leading international journals. He is currently completing a book on private international law in Commonwealth Africa.
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Richard Frimpong Oppong has 22 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Oppong, Richard F. (2015) Relational issues of law and economic integration in Africa : perspectives from constitutional, public and private international law. PhD thesis, University of British Columbia.
Oppong, Richard F. (2011) Legal aspects of economic integration in Africa. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107007178 (In Press)
Oppong, Richard F. (2010) Ghana. In: International Encyclopaedia of Laws : Private International Law. Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn. ISBN 978904115553
Oppong, Richard F. (2010) Private international law scholarship in Africa (1884-2009) : a selected bibliography. American Journal of Comparative Law, 58 (2). pp. 319-342. ISSN 0002-919X
Oppong, Richard Frimpong (2010) The African Union, African Economic Community and Africa’s Regional Economic Communities : untangling a complex web. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 18 (1). pp. 92-103. ISSN 0954-8890
Oppong, Richard Frimpong (2009) Making regional economic community laws enforceable in national legal systems – constitutional and judicial challenges. In: Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa. Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, pp. 149-178. ISBN 978-0-9814221-2-1
Oppong, Richard F. (2008) A Decade of Private International Law in African Courts 1997-2007 (Part I). In: IX Yearbook of Private International Law. Sellier European Law Publishers, pp. 223-255.
Oppong, Richard Frimpong (2008) A decade of private international law in African courts 1997-2007 (Part II). Yearbook of Private International Law, 10. pp. 367-408.
Oppong, Richard F. (2008) Roman Dutch Law meets the Common Law on Jurisdiction in International Matters. Journal of Private International Law, 4 (2). pp. 311-327. ISSN 1744-1048
Oppong, Richard F. (2007) Canadian Courts Enforce Foreign Non-Money Judgments. Modern Law Review, 70 (4). pp. 670-679. ISSN 0026-7961
Associated Keywords: Economic integration in Africa, International economic law, Private international law (with emphasis on Africa)
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