Mr. Richard Obeng Mensah

Assistant Lecturer


Dept: Private Law
Private Law Department
Faculty of Law, KNUST.

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Research Areas/Interests

Energy security, renewable energy, climate change, human rights, intellectual property rights, comparative law, corruption, good governance....~more

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Publications

    Ø  Referred Journal Articles

    1. Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Ghana’s Constitutional Evolution since 1960: Comparative Analysis of the Country’s Equality and      Anti-Discrimination    Law     Provisions’ (2022) 3 E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS) 7, 256-268-138. ISSN 2720-7722.

    2. Chris Adomako-Kwakye and Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Too Much, Too Little: the Dilemma of Ghana’s Legal Regime for Investment in the Mining Sector’ (2022) 1 International Journal of Law & Society 5, 123-133.

    3.  Richard Obeng Mensah and Rose Asamoah, ‘Head of State Immunity: An Appraisal of Article 46A bis of the Malabo Protocol’ (2021)1 ESUT Law 1, 163-173.

    4.  Delali A. Gawu and Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Covid-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy Rights in Ghana: A Critical Analysis of the Establishment of Emergency Communications System Instrument 2020 (EI 63)’ (2021) Journal of African Law 1-13. Doi: 10.1017/S0021855321000425.

    5.  Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Oxymoronic Legalism in the Ghanaian Supreme Court? Case Comment on Attorney- General v Faroe Atlantic Co. Ltd’ (2021) 2 E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS) 10, 130-138. ISSN 2720-7722.

    6.  Chris Adomako-Kwakye and Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Social Legitimacy as the Unresolved Driver in Mining Conflicts: A Case Study of Ghana’ (2023). Forthcoming in Springer Science.

    7.  Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Richard Obeng Mensah and Delali Gawu, Seeking Panacea to Constitutional Crisis Caused by Covid-19 Pandemic in Ghana: Comparative Insights from Finnis’ Natural Law Theory and Hart’s Model of Legal Positivism. Forthcoming in KNUST Law Journal.

     

    Ø Books

    1.  Richard Obeng Mensah and 4 others, Intellectual Property Law in Ghana (2023) IQ Media. ISBN: 978-9988-3-5244-8. Forthcoming.

     

    Ø Book Chapters

    1. Chris Adomako-Kwakye and Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Social Legitimacy as the Unresolved Driver in Mining Conflicts: A Case Study of Ghana’ in Victoria Nalule and D S Olawuyi (eds), The Palgrave Hanbook of Arbitration in the African Energy and Mining Sectors: Palgrave Studies in Energy Transition (2023) Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 1-27.

    2. Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Climate Change and Clean Energy Generation in Ghana: Reflections on the Regulatory and Investment Frameworks’ in Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom and two others (eds), Democratic Governance, Law, and Development in Africa: Pragmatism, Experiments, Prospects (2022) Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Publication 637-667.

    3.  Delali A. Gawu and Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Balancing the Freedom of Expression, Right to Information and Use of Social Media in Ghana’ in Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom and two others (eds), Democratic Governance, Law, and Development in Africa: Pragmatism, Experiments, Prospects (2022) Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Publication 121-145.

    4. Richard Obeng Mensah and Karen Baaba Osam, ‘The Contribution of International Community to Peaceful Elections in Ghana’ in Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom and two others (eds), Democratic Governance, Law, and Development in Africa: Pragmatism, Experiments, Prospects (2022) Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature Publication 415-440.

    5. Richard Obeng Mensah and Rose Asamoah, ‘Assessing Africa Union’s Climate Change Regime’ forthcoming in Human Rights and the Environment in Africa: A Research Companion (2023) by Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group.

    6.  Rene A.S Morhe and Richard Obeng Mensah, State Compliance with Decisions of the African Court: the Case of Alfred Agbesi Woyome v Ghana, (2019) 3 African Human Rights Yearbook, 435-455.

    7.  Richard Obeng Mensah, Constitutional Boundaries to Human Rights in Ghana: Measuring the Scope of Private and Public Interests in the ‘Right’ to Sexual Orientation, M. Addarney (Ed.), ‘Women and Minority Rights Law in Africa: Reimagining Equality and Addressing Discrimination’ (Eleven International Publishing 2019), pp 145-163. ISBN: 978-94-6236-9467; ISBN: 978-94-6274-509-4 (e-book).

     

    Ø  Conference Papers

    1. Richard Obeng Mensah and Nicholas Osei Darkwa, ‘Climate Change Resilience in Ghana: A Critique of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act 2013’ (BSU III Climate Change Conference 2022, 4tt-5th October 2022). Forthcoming in Scientific Africa.

    2.  Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Stimulating Renewable Energy Production and Green Economies: An Analysis of Cross-border Trade in Renewable Energy Products and Energy Investments in Africa’ (UNER’s Colloquium on Regional Trade Agreements and Climate Change in Africa 2022, 22nd September 2022). Forthcoming in the Journal of Energy and Natural Resource Management.

    3.  Richard Obeng Mensah, Karen Baaba Osam and Delali A. Gawu, ‘Artificial Intelligence and Administration of Justice in Ghana’ (KNUST Faculty of Law International Conference on Law, Science and Technology 2022, 31st August 2022).

    4. Richard Obeng Mensah, ‘Ghana’s Constitutional Evolution since 1960: Comparative Analysis of the Country’s Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law Provisions’ (BCCE Virtual Conference 2021, 15th July) https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-center-on-comparative-equality-anti-discrimination-law/our-annual-conference-programs/ accessed 25 May 2021.

     

    Ø Other Publications

    1.  Richard Obeng Mensah in Amankwah Baafi (eds), ‘Big Issue: 2021 Budget and fiscal consolidation’, Daily Graphic (Accra, Monday, March 22, 2021) 17.

     

     


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