Maame A.S. Mensa-Bonsu (DPhil)
Head of Department: Law
Maame holds a BA in Theatre Arts and Spanish; and an LLB, both with First Class Honours, from the University of Ghana. She completed the Bachelor of Civil Law with distinction and her DPhil without corrections both at the University of Oxford, UK. Maame joined Ashesi from the LSE where she taught Public Law and Criminal Law. Maame’s research focuses on the constitutional experience of African democracies. She has a particular interest is judicial power in postcolonial African states.
- Philosophical Foundations of Public Policy
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal Law
- Jurisprudence
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal Law
- Legal Theory
- Human Rights
- African Legal Thought
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory
- Maame A S Mensa-Bonsu, ‘The Trouble with Judicial Amendments: Lessons from Ghana’ in Charles M Fombad and Nico Steytler (eds), Constitutional Change and Constitutionalism in Africa, Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law (OUP 2025).
- Maame A S Mensa-Bonsu, ‘Interpreting Article 266 of the Ghanaian Constitution: Reflections Prompted by Verdose v Verdose-Kuranchie’ (2022) 5 Lancaster University Ghana Law Journal 142.
- Maame Y A Mensa-Bonsu and Maame A S Mensa-Bonsu, ‘To Win the Battle and the War: Judicial Determination of Property Rights of Spouses in Ghana’ in J Jarpa Dawuni (ed), Gender and Judging across Africa (World Bank, Routledge 2021) 40.
- Mensa-Bonsu, MAS, ‘The Presidential Prerogative of Mercy: A Commonwealth Explanation from Ghana’ (2021) 15(2) Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 257.
- Maame A S Mensa-Bonsu, ‘Why Electoral Reforms Are Urgently Needed in Ghana’ (2021) 29(2) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 185.
- Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil.), Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2021
- Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2014
- Qualifying Certificate in Law, Ghana School of Law, Ghana, 2013
- LLB., University of Ghana, Ghana, 2011
- Theatre and Spanish, (BA), University of Ghana, Ghana, 2006
- Espanol Como Lengua Extranjera, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, 2005
