Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei is a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ghana. He has been elected as Judge of the African Court in July 2022 for a term of six years. He is one of the Nine- Member Advisory Committee of the International Criminal Court. Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei was elected as the Inns of Court and Advanced Legal Institute of the University of London Senior Judges Fellow for Common Law jurisdictions for 2022-23 academic year. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei attended University of Ghana and proceeded to the Ghana School of Law. He obtained an Executive Master of Public Administration from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He further obtained Master of Laws in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of London. He also holds a Master of Laws in Judicial Studies from the Duke Law School, Duke University, North Carolina, United States of America.
Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei is the Acting Director of the Judicial Training Institute of Ghana and held the substantive office from 2014-2019. He was the Dean, Faculty of Law, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration from January 2019 to August, 2020. The author is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Ghana School of Law, Accra, Ghana, where he lectures Interpretation of Statutes and Deeds; and Land Law and Conveyancing.
The author has written six textbooks namely: Constitutional Law of Ghana- Evolution, Theory and Practice (2020); Modern Approach to the Law of Interpretation in Ghana (3rd Edition, Reprinted, 2021); Criminal Procedure and Practice in Ghana (3rd Edition (2021); Land Law, Practice and Conveyancing in Ghana ( 3rd Edition, 2021); Contemporary Criminal Law in Ghana ( 3rd Edition, 2021), and The Essential Laws on Credit Creation and Registration of Security Interests.
The author has also co-authored a textbook entitled “The Alternative Dispute Resolution – A Ghanaian Perspective.” The author was Knighted by the Holy Father, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI to the Order of St Gregory the Great in 2005.
