Research
Welcome to my research space! I’m passionate about exploring new ideas, challenging perspectives, and contributing to meaningful academic conversations.
Here, you’ll find a collection of my scholarly publications and selected consultancy works, each reflecting my journey in research and scholarship. I invite you to explore my work and join me in the pursuit of knowledge and innovation.
Journal Articles
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2025). Of Vacant Parliamentary Seats, Party Politics and Supreme Court Orders in Ghana: A Constitutional Analysis. African Journal of International and Comparative Law. 33(3) 473 - 487 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2025.0537.
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2023). Breathing Life into the Kampala Convention: Towards Workable Enforcement Mechanism. Journal of African Law, 1-19 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855323000219
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2023) A Survey on E-Learning Experiences of Law Students during Covid-19 in Ghana. The Law Teacher Journal 57(1) 38-54 DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2022.2077517 available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2022.2077517.
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua & Nkansah, Lydia A. (2023). Women at the Bench: Does it Make a difference? Assessing the Impact of Women Judges in Addressing Gender-Based Issues in Ghana. Oñati Socio-Legal Series (with a Special section about Gender and Judging in the Middle East and Africa), 13(3), 1142-1162. DOI: 10.35295/OSLS.IISL/0000-0000-0000-1175.
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2022). ‘No Jab, No Entry’: A Constitutional and Human Rights Perspective on Vaccine Mandates in Ghana Health and Human Rights Review 24 (2) 47 – 58 available at https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2469/2022/12/addadzi-koom.pdf.
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2019). Midnight Actions During Presidential Transitions in Ghana: A Rising Tide. African Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law, 1, 25-54 available at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/ejc-jlc_ajccl-v2019-n1-a2.
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. & Adjei-Bediako, Ebenezer. (2019). Implementing an E-Justice System in Ghana: Prospects, Risks, Challenges and Lessons from Best Practices. KNUST Law Journal, 8, 108-142 available at https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/knust8&div=8id=&page=.
Book Chapters
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua, Addaney, Michael & Nkansah, Lydia A. (2022) The Fourth Republic and the 1992 Constitution of Ghana: Grounding Democracy, Rule of Law and Development In Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Addaney, M. and Nkansah, L. A. (eds.) Democracy and Development under Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Realities, Challenges and Prospects Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 3-35 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15397-6_1.
Nyinevi, Christopher Y. & Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2022) Reflections on Public Interest Constitutional Litigation of the Government of Ghana’s Economic Transactions with Private Parties In Addadzi-Koom, M.E., Addaney, M. and Nkansah, L. A. (eds.) Democracy and Development under Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Realities, Challenges and Prospects Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 63-92 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15397-6_1.
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2021). Revenge Pornography as a form of Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Ghana: Emerging Judicial Issues. In Dawuni Jarpa J. (ed). Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa: Selected Studies. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 123-141. DOI: 10.4324/9880429327865-7.
Nkansah, Lydia A. & Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2019). Presidential Grant of Pardon and Rule of Law: The Case of Montie Trio. In Kusi-Appiah, F. (ed.) Ghana@60: Evolution of the Law, Democratic Governance, Human Rights and Future Prospects -Proceedings of a Conference 9th -10th March 2017. Glienicke: Galda Verlag, 93-120.
Conference Papers
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. (2023) Adjudicating Human Rights in the ECOWAS Court: Challenges and Prospects. Raoul Wallenberg Institute available at https://rwi.lu.se/pyramid-publications/adjudicating-human-rights-in-the-ecowas-court-challenges-and-prospects/.
Addadzi-Koom. Maame Efua. (2022). Positioning E-Justice in Ghana’s E-Governance Agenda for Sustainable Development: Post-Pandemic Reflections available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375921843_Positioning_E-Justice_in_Ghana's_E-Governance_Agenda_for_Sustainable_Development_Post-Pandemic_Reflections#fullTextFileContent
Literary and Creative Works
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Selected Consultancy and Rapporteur Works/ Reports
Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua. Comments on Draft Human Rights Principles for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. A Consultancy Commentary for the Global Health Law Consortium (GHLC) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). August, 2022)
Expert commentary on the Draft Human Rights Principles for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response.
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Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua, Review of Discriminatory Laws Related to Violence Against Women in Africa: Country Report (Ghana). A Consultancy Report for the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa and the Office of the Presidency of South Africa. (August, 2022).
Reviewed discriminatory laws related to violence against women in Ghana.
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Addadzi-Koom, Maame Efua & Gawu, Delali A. Colloquium on the Draft Rent Bill and Ghana Housing Authority Bill. Rapporteurs’ Report for the KNUST Faculty of Law, Kumasi and the Ministry of Works and Housing, Ghana. (July, 2022).
Official rapporteur appointed to record proceeding on a stakeholder engagement meeting to review the draft Rent Bill and Ghana Housing Authority Bill.
