Elijah Tukwariba Yin

Elijah Tukwariba Yin has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana, a postgraduate diploma in Law from the University of Law in the United Kingdom, and an International Master's in Sociology of Law from the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) of the University of the Basque Country in Spain, in collaboration with the University of Milan in Italy. He earned his Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Unicaf University in Zambia and his PhD from UCC. He also has a Higher Education Teaching Certificate from Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and a certificate in Global Law, Economic Policy, and Social Justice from Harvard Law School. Dr Yin is an alumnus of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) and a scholarship award recipient for the Scholars Writing Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (2018), and the Global Scholars Academy in Geneva, Switzerland (2020). He is also a scholarship recipient for the Accra Socio-Legal Writing Workshop organised by Cardiff Law and Global Justice and the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Accra, Ghana (2018). Dr Yin has won research grants from notable research directorates and institutions, namely the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy of the UCC, the School of Law of the University of Ghana.

Dr Yin’s academic and research interests include criminology and criminal law, legal theory, comparative legal culture, international human rights law, sociology of law, civil justice and housing law, corporate law and governance, multicultural constitutionalism, environmental justice, and socio-legal research methods. He is a member of the Law and Society Association and the Institute for Global Law and Policy Network at Harvard Law School, all in the USA. He is also a member of the Oñati Community in Spain. He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law and currently the Director of the Centre for Legal Research and the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Coast. He currently teaches Legal Research, Jurisprudence, Philosophical Foundations of Law, Critical Thinking in Law, and Introduction to Sociology.