Dr. Elijah Tukwariba Yin is a Senior Legal Academic at the Faculty of Law, where he teaches Legal Research, Jurisprudence, Philosophical Foundations of Law, Critical Thinking in Law, and Introduction to Sociology.
Dr. Yin has a Bachelor of Arts degree 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 Faculty of Law 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 Ph.D. from the 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) at Harvard Law School and a scholarship award recipient for the Scholars Writing Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (2018), and the Global Scholars Academy in Geneva, Switzerland (2020). Dr. Yin 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, etc.
Dr. Yin’s academic specialisation is in Law and Society. His research interests include Criminal Law and Criminology, Legal Theory/Jurisprudence, 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.
Dr. Yin 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 Onati Community in Spain.
Dr. Yin has authored a number of books, book chapters, and journal articles.
Outside of his academic role, he enjoys swimming and listening to hymns and songs by Elvis Presley and Joseph Hill.
Favourite Quotation: "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters" (Margaret Peters)