International Suite Talk Featuring Dr. J. Jarpa Dawuni, Professor at Howard University; Fulbright Specialist Scholar; Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow

Dr. J. Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. She is a qualified Barrister-at-Law before the Superior Courts of Ghana. She holds a Doctorate in Political Science from Georgia State University. Her primary areas of research and advocacy include law and development, judicial politics, women and the legal professions, gender and the law, international human rights, democratization and women’s civil society organizing. Her two recent books are International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Judge Akua Kuenyehia and Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity? (Routledge, 2016), co-edited with Gretchen Bauer.  She is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Institute for African Women in Law.

She is the founding Director of the Howard University Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership established in 2020. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Women in Law Academia International Award from the Women in Law Initiative, Austria. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Carnegie African Diaspora Scholar, and a Fellow at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana. She is a Visiting Professor in the UNESCO Peace Masters Program at the University of Jaume 1 in Castellon, Spain. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Queens University, Kingston, Canada, and University of Copenhagen iCourts Program in Denmark.