Postgraduate Research Student & Graduate Teaching Fellow
Liverpool Law School
Justice.Osei-Afriyie@liverpool.ac.uk
Biography
Justice is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and a PhD candidate at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. Justice holds Master of Laws (LL.M) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from Queen Mary, University of London, and a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA Hons.) in Political Science and Philosophy from University of Ghana.
Research
Justice’s research interests are International Economic Law, International Investment Law, Multinational Enterprises and the Law, the Law of the World Trade Organization, Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Law and Development, and Public Health Law. Justice currently teaches Intellectual Property Law (Law 338 & 339) at the School of Law and Social Justice.
Research clusters
Working thesis title
'The focus of Justice’s doctoral thesis is on Foreign Investment law policy of African states'.
Dates of study
October 2020- September 2025
Supervisors
Dr Jure Zrilic
Dr Mavluda Sattorova
Research Summary
The research study adopts the critical models of postcolonial theory to investigate the underlying factors which inform investment law policy making of states in Africa. The principal objective of the research study is to find out whether post-independent states in Africa are rule-takers or rule-makers in investment law policy making.
Publications
Justice Osei-Afriyie, ‘Foreign Investment Treaties and the Sovereignty of Developing Host States: Ants Riding Elephants?’ in Yenkong N. Hodu and Makane M. Mbengue (eds.), African Perspectives on International Investment Law (Manchester University Press, 2020) pp. 30-48
Justice Osei-Afriyie et al., Advances in Medicine, Regulation of Health Care and the Search for Appropriate Legal Framework in Ghana, Richard F. Oppong et al., (eds.), A Commitment to Law, Development and Public Policy: A Festschrift in Honour of Nana Dr. S.K.B. Asante, (London: Wildy, Simonds and Hill Publishing, 2016), pp.617-636