Mr Ezekiel Osei

I am a PhD Candidate (International Law) and a member of Gonville & Caius College. I hold a Cambridge Trust International Scholarship and was also awarded a W M Tapp Research Studentship in Law by the College. I studied law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, from 2016 to 2020 as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar. I graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Laws (LLB), ranked third out of 200 graduates, and in 2018 received the Lecturer’s Brightest Privilege Award for the best grade in African Union Law. I completed my professional legal training at the Ghana School of Law, Kumasi Campus, obtaining the Qualifying Certificate in Law in November 2022 and being called to the Ghana Bar. In October 2024, I came to the University of Cambridge as an FCDO Chevening Scholar to read the Master of Laws (LLM) at Hughes Hall, where I studied Competition Law, Corporate Insolvency Law, Corporate Finance Law and International Investment Law. I graduated in July 2025 with First Class Honours, ranked third out of 195 candidates. I was awarded the Faculty of Law Prizes for Competition Law and for Corporate Insolvency Law, as well as the Jeffrey W Cook Prize in Law for the best-performing LLM student and the Johnston Prize for postgraduate studies at Hughes Hall.

My professional experience spans university teaching, research and legal practice. I am an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the KNUST Faculty of Law, Ghana, where I teach Public International Law and Company Law, and from September 2025 to March 2026, I was an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School, Accra, teaching International Trade and Investment Law and Public International Law. Between 2020 and 2024, I served as a Research and Teaching Associate at the KNUST Faculty of Law, teaching and researching Company Law, Contract, Medical Law and Ethics, Public International Law and African Union Law, and coaching the Faculty’s moot court teams. At Cambridge, I was Research Assistant to Professor Louise Gullifer on the fourth edition of The Law of Personal Property and a researcher with the Cambridge Pro Bono Project. Currently, I am an Independent Consultant (ad hoc) to the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, where I research and co-author the moot problem and bench memorandum for the Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition alongside Professor Frans Viljoen (a member of UN Human Rights Council). I have also undertaken legal research for Ghana’s National Law Reform Commission and Ministry of Works and Housing under the auspices of the KNUST Faculty of Law. In practice, I have worked in general and corporate litigation at Owusu-Dapaa Law and Associates, Kumasi, from 2022 to 2024, and later served as Managing Associate at SBA Legal Consult, Kumasi, Ghana.

My editorial work centres on peer review and legal publishing. I am a Contributing Editor of The Competition Brief, where I co-direct the development of a database of African competition law jurisprudence and evaluates submissions for publication. I am also a Managing Editor and Blog Manager for the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ), and a peer reviewer for the KNUST Law Journal (assessing manuscripts on international law, corporate and commercial law, and competition law). From March 2024 to July 2025, I was External Adviser (Research and Publications) to the FALAS West Africa Research Directorate, where I led workshops on legal research and scholarly writing, reviewed articles for publication and mentored student researchers.

At Cambridge, I am a member of the Cambridge International Law Discussion Group, the Cambridge University Arbitration Society, the Cambridge University AI in Law Society, the Cambridge Trust Scholars community, the African Society of Cambridge University and the Cambridge University Ghanaian Society. During my LLM studies, I represented the LLM students of Hughes Hall on the Faculty’s Staff-Student Consultative Committee and was active in the Cambridge Cheveners Group and the Oxbridge Cheveners Link Group. Beyond Cambridge, I am a member of the Ghana Bar Association and the LCIA Young International Arbitration Group.