Department of Jurisprudence

Prof. Vukor-Quarshie, a Ghanaian, is the Head of the Department of Jurisprudence.

He is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained the LL.B and LL.M degrees. He went on to obtain a second LL.M and the SJD degrees from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.  He also possesses the B.L. professional degree from the Ghana School of Law and is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

Before coming to UNIVEN Prof. Vukor-Quarshie taught at the ff. Universities: Obafemi Awolowo University, Oyo State, Nigeria; Phillips University of Marburg, Savigny Haus, Marburg, Germany; University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and University of Swaziland.

His teaching interests include generic Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law, Private International Law, Mercantile Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Delict, Jurisprudence, Medical Law and Mercantile Law. He belongs to the ff. professional bodies;Ghana Bar Association, Association International de Droit Pénal, the African Law Association and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.

His hobbies are basketball, tennis and scrabble. By the way, he is crazy about the Gunners.

Publications

Chapters in Books

• The crisis of scholarly publishing in Africa: A case study of selected African countries. (Article co-authored with Prof. E. Oseifuah). Published in Scholarly Publishing in Africa, opportunities and impediments by the Africa Institute of South Africa, 2010, pp. 83-98.
• Criminal Law, NQF3. Co-authored with C. J. Roelofse, L. Oliver, & C. Hagenmeier, 2009.
• Human Rights Manual and Sourcebook for Africa – Chapter on Swaziland, pp 869-899, 2005, Published by The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
• Criminal Law’s Reaction to State Crime – A Project Sponsored and Published in English and German by the Max-Planck-Institute for International and Foreign Criminal Law, Germany, June 2002 pp. 175-293

Articles

• Developments in the Field of Criminal Justice Administration in Swaziland – A Triumph for the Autochthonous Law? (Article written at the Max-Planck-Institute for International and Foreign Criminal Law - To be published in the Yearbook of African Law 2010)
• Nigeria – Developments in the Criminal Law: Economic and Business Crimes (Published by the Journal of Financial Crime – The Official Journal of Cambridge International Colloquium on Economic Crime), U.K., August 1997 pp83 ff.
• Case-note – Developments in the field of Criminal Justice Administration in Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa in Review, Journal of African Law, 1997, Vol. 41, pp 214 ff.
• Criminal Justice Administration in Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa in Review, 1997 Vol. 8 No. 1, Criminal Law Forum [USA], pp 41 214
• Insane Delusion and Criminal Responsibility in Nigeria: Law and Psychiatry on a Collision Course (Presented at the Conference on Law and Medicie. Obafemi Awolowo University, June 1996), [Published by The Advocate, Obafemi Awolowo University Law Journal, 1996, pp 14 ff]
• Mens Rea and Complicity in the Criminal Code of Nigeria. Published by University of Jos Law Journal, Vol. 4, 1994, pp 94 ff.
• Liability for AIDS Infection under the Criminal Law of Nigeria, Published by The Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, Vol. X No. 122, March-June 1991, pp 101 ff.
• The Automatism Defence in Nigeria, A Re-Examination of an Unruly and Mischievous Concept of Criminal Responsibility. A Monograph Published by Savigny Haus, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, September 16, 1987.
• Additional Posers in Provocation Law of Nigeria, Published by Law & Politics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Vol. 20 of 1987, pp.317 ff
• Post-Independence Developments in the Field of Criminal Law and Procedure in Nigeria. A Paper read at the 1987 Conference of the African Law Association, Marburg, West Germany, Nov. 1987, Published in Vol. 7 of the Yearbook of African Law, pp 125 ff
• Are the Heat of Passion Provisions of Section 318 of the Criminal Code of Nigeria as Defective as the Critics Maintain? Published by Obafemi Awolowo Law Journal, 1987, Vol. 3 & 4, Pp. 97 ff
•  “The Defence of Intoxication in two West African Countries” - Published by Calabar Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1986, pp 168 ff
• “Intoxication and Criminal Responsibility under the Criminal and Penal Codes of Nigeria” - A Paper read at 1984 Conference of the African Law Association, Heidelberg, Germany, October 1984, and Published by the Yearbook of African Law, Vol. 5, 1984, pp 159 ff
• Corporate Criminal Liability: An Additional Chapter to the Criminal and Penal Codes of Nigeria - Published by the Yearbook of African Law, Germany, Vol. II, 1981, pp 141 ff