Assistant Professor of Law
B.A. and LLB, University of Ghana; LL.M., Harvard Law School; S.J.D., Fordham University School of Law
Room 427 | Phone: 501-916-5513 | Email: [email protected]
Faculty Assistant: Lindsey Lamb, [email protected]
Christine Buamah is an Assistant Professor of Law at University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law William H. Bowen School of Law. She teaches International Law, Human Rights, Disability Law, Torts and Criminal Procedure Pretrial Process. She is interested in identifying synergies between international human rights domestication and conflict of laws. Her current research focuses on domestication of international human rights in legal pluralistic contexts. She also writes in the area of Disability Law. Prior to entering academia, she worked with Fears Nachawati Law Firm in Dallas, Texas (Mass Torts department), Aduboffour Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, and Atuguba & Associates / Law and Development Associates in Ghana. From 2010-2012, she served as Counsel / and Associate Researcher for the Constitution Review Commission of Ghana.
Publications
Buamah C.N.T (2018) Compliance with the CRPD in States with Multiple Internal Legal Systems: The Case of Ghana, Australian Journal of Economics and Management Science, Vol 9 (1), pp 235-244, http://onlinejournal.org.uk/index.php/AJEMS/article/view/461
Buamah C.N.T (2018) Reassessing Ghana’s Statutory Compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; British Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol 9 (1), pp 021-029, http://onlinejournal.org.uk/index.php/BJIR/article/view/462
Buamah C.N.T (2017) State Conformity with International Human Rights Norms: Evidence from Ghana, European Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol 6 (1), pp 255-265, http://onlinejournal.org.uk/index.php/ejocr/article/view/456
Buamah C.N.T (2017) Relevance of Acculturation to Human Rights Domestication: Revisiting Goodman and Jink’s Acculturation Theory, American Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol 5 (2), pp 502-511, http://onlinejournal.org.uk/index.php/ajmur/article/view/458