Oliver Barker Announces New Job At University of Ghana

Activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor says he has accepted an offer to lecture at the University of Ghana (UG), Legon.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, he said he will be teaching Constitutional Law at UG Law School for a semester.

“So… I’ve agreed to teach Constitutional Law at UG Law this semester. Because apparently, sleep is optional,” he shared.

“Not sure whether to call it public service or poor impulse control. Anyway, I’ll be dusting off the 1992 Constitution and pretending I don’t secretly enjoy teaching it.”

Oliver holds degrees from the Universite Mohammed V, Souissi, Rabat the Universite Hassan II, Casablanca in Morocco, the University of Ghana, and Harvard Law School in the USA.

Prior to commencing his doctoral programme at the University of Cambridge, Oliver held various roles in the Private Sector, in Government, and with the United Nations.

He has worked as a Diplomat in the Foreign Service of Ghana, Senior Legal and Policy Officer at the Office of the President in Ghana, Judicial Fellow to the Vice President of the International Court of Justice, Legal Officer at the United Nations Headquarters in New York USA, and as Global Law and Policy Advisor at the headquarters of the international law firm Covington & Burling LLP in Washington DC, USA.

Between January 2010 to December 2011, Oliver was also engaged as a Constitutional Researcher and the Access to Justice Advisor to Ghana’s Constitution Review Commission, which was appointed by the President of Ghana on the advice of the country’s Attorney General to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution and to make recommendations for a possible amendments to the Constitution.

Source: https://opemsuo.com/author/hajara-fuseini/