Dr. Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Public Law
Faculty of Law

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Publications

    BOOKS

    1. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2026). Adjudicating African Women’s Rights: The Jurisprudence of the ECOWAS Court. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009758604, DOI 10.1017/9781009758604. DOI 10.1017/9781009758598.
    2. Obeng Mensah, R., Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Brempong, M.S., Agyei, E. (2025). Standards of Legal Writing and Professional Communication: For Judges, Lawyers, Legal Academics, Paralegals, and Law Students. Intelligent Quotient Media. ISBN: 978-9988-51-065-7
    3. Obeng Mensah, R., Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Agyei, E. (2025). The Orange Book of Studying and Learning the Law. Intelligent Quotient Media. ISBN: 978-9988-51-064-0
    4. Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Addaney, M. & Nkansah, L. A. (eds.) (2022). Democratic Governance, Law and Development in Africa: Pragmatism, Experiments and Prospects. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15397-6.

     

    REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

    1. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. & Bewel, D.B. (2025). Of Vacant Parliamentary Seats, Party Politics and Supreme Court Orders in Ghana: A Constitutional Analysis. African Journal of International and Comparative Law. 33(3) 473 - 487 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2025.0537.
    2. Agyei, K.B., Addadzi-Koom, M.E. & Adjei-Bediako, E. (2025). The Constitutionality of Police Powers Conferred on Commissions of Inquiry in Ghana. KNUST Law Journal. 12, 36 - 50.
    3. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2025). Redefining Workplace Sexual Harassment in Ghana. UCC Law Journal. 4(2) 129 - 156 DOI: 10.47963/ucclj.v4i2.1721.
    4. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. & Agyei, K.B. (2025). Legislative Violence in Ghana: A Threat to Democracy? Journal of Legislative Studies. 31(1) 43 - 63 DOI: 1080/13572334.2022.2145045.
    5. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2024). “You deserve mob justice too”: Discursive Justifications of Mob (In)Justice on Social Media in Africa. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 79, 1 -11. DOI:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2024.100697
    6. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2023). Breathing Life into the Kampala Convention: Towards Workable Enforcement Mechanism. Journal of African Law, 1-19 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855323000219
    7. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2023). A Survey on E-Learning Experiences of Law Students during COVID-19 in Ghana. The Law Teacher Journal 57(1) 38-54 DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2022.2077517 available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2022.2077517.
    8. Addadzi-Koom, E. & Nkansah, L.A. (2023). Women at the Bench: Does it Make a Difference? Assessing the Impact of Women Judges in Addressing Gender-Based Issues in Ghana. Oñati Socio-Legal Series (with a Special section about Gender and Judging in the Middle East and Africa), 13(3), 1142-1162. DOI: 10.35295/OSLS.IISL/0000-0000-0000-1175.
    9. Addadzi-Koom, E. (2023). Covid-19 and access to justice in the ECOWAS Court: Reflecting on early judicial responses and its future implications. KNUST Law Journal, 10(2), 53-68.
    10. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2022). ‘No Jab, No Entry’: A Constitutional and Human Rights Perspective on Vaccine Mandates in Ghana Health and Human Rights Review 24 (2) 47 – 58 available at https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2469/2022/12/addadzi-koom.pdf.
    11. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2021). Ethical and Medico-Legal Issues of Necrophilia: A Ghanaian Perspective. UCC Faculty of Law Journal 1(2), 119-142 DOI: 10.47963/ucclj.v1i2.414.
    12. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2020). Of Women’s Rights Jurisprudence of the ECOWAS Court: The Role of the Maputo Protocol and the Due Diligence Standard. Feminist Legal Studies, 28 (2), 155-178 DOI:10.1007/s10691-020-09432-4.
    13. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2020). Quasi-State of Emergency: Assessing the Constitutionality of Ghana’s Legislative Response to Covid-19. The Theory and Practice of Legislation, 8(3), 311-327 DOI: 10.1080/20508840.2020.1777648.
    14. Addadzi-Koom, E. (2019). Midnight Actions During Presidential Transitions in Ghana: A Rising Tide. African Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law, 1, 25-54 available at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/ejc-jlc_ajccl-v2019-n1-a2.
    15. Addadzi-Koom, E. & Adjei-Bediako, E. (2019). Implementing an E-Justice System in Ghana: Prospects, Risks, Challenges and Lessons from Best Practices. KNUST Law Journal, 8, 108-142 available at https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/knust8&div=8id=&page=.
    16. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2019). He Beat Me, and the State Did Nothing About It: The Due Diligence Standard and State Responsibility for Domestic Violence in International Law – An African Perspective. African Human Rights Law Journal, 19(2), 624-652 DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2019/v19n2a8.
    17. Nyinevi, C. Y. & Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2017). To Admit or Not to Admit: A Comparative Constitutional Perspective on Illegally Obtained Evidence in Ghana. Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 42(4), 538-563, DOI: 10.1080/03050718.2017.1291357.

     

    BOOK CHAPTERS

    1. Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Addaney, M. & Nkansah, L. A. (2022). The Fourth Republic and the 1992 Constitution of Ghana: Grounding Democracy, Rule of Law and Development In Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Addaney, M. and Nkansah, L. A. (eds.) Democracy and Development under Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Realities, Challenges and Prospects Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 3-35 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15397-6_1.
    2. Nyinevi, C. Y. & Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2022). Reflections on Public Interest Constitutional Litigation of the Government of Ghana’s Economic Transactions with Private Parties In Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Addaney, M. and Nkansah, L. A. (eds.) Democracy and Development under Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Realities, Challenges and Prospects Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 63-92 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15397-6_1.
    3. Addadzi-Koom, E. & Gage, B.G. (2022). Women Judges in Ethiopia. In Dawuni Jarpa J. (ed). Gender, Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice. USA: Lexington Books, 69- 93.
    4. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2021). Revenge Pornography as a form of Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Ghana: Emerging Judicial Issues. In Dawuni Jarpa J. (ed). Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa: Selected Studies. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 123-141. DOI: 10.4324/9880429327865-7.
    5. Nkansah, L. A. & Addadzi-Koom, E. (2019). Presidential Grant of Pardon and Rule of Law: The Case of Montie Trio. In Kusi-Appiah, F. (ed.) Ghana@60: Evolution of the Law, Democratic Governance, Human Rights and Future Prospects -Proceedings of a Conference 9th -10th March 2017. Glienicke: Galda Verlag, 93-120.

    CONFERENCE PAPERS

    1. Addadzi-Koom, M.E. (2023). Adjudicating Human Rights in the ECOWAS Court: Challenges and Prospects. Raoul Wallenberg Institute available at https://rwi.lu.se/pyramid-publications/adjudicating-human-rights-in-the-ecowas-court-challenges-and-prospects/.
    2. Addadzi-Koom. E. (2022). Positioning E-Justice in Ghana’s E-Governance Agenda for Sustainable Development: Post-Pandemic Reflections available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375921843_Positioning_E-Justice_in_Ghana's_E-Governance_Agenda_for_Sustainable_Development_Post-Pandemic_Reflections#fullTextFileContent

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