Tawia Modibo Ocran
Academic and Supreme Court Judge
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Professor Justice Tawia Modibo Ocran was an academic and a Supreme Court Judge in Ghana. Early life and education Justice Professor Tawia Modibo Ocran was born on September 12, 1942, at Tarkwa-Nsuaem in the Western Region of Ghana. Christened John Tawia Ocran, he was the last child of the late Mr. Joseph Samuel Ocran, an elementary school headteacher, and Madam Ama Amireku Ocran, a housewife. Justice Ocran had his elementary school education at Tarkwa-Nsuaem Methodist School and Tarkwa Catholic School from 1949 to 1956. He entered St. Augustine's College, Cape Coast, in 1957, where he completed both the Ordinary- and Advanced-level exams at the top of his class in 1961 and 1963 respectively. He also became the Acting School Prefect in 1962 and the House Prefect of St. Luke's House in 1962/63. He was admitted to the Law Faculty of the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1963, and graduated with an LLB. in 1966 and a Barrister at Law Diploma in 1967. He proceeded immediately to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States, from where he obtained a master's in Legal Institutions from the Law School in 1968 and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in law and Development Studies in 1971. He also did a postgraduate research fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles Law School in 1968/69. He was called to the Ghana Bar in 1967.
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