The Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame, has brokered a deal to allow Ghanaian law graduates, lawyers and judges to benefit from scholarships to embark on further studies in the prestigious Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC, United States of America (USA).
The deal is the culmination of months of negotiations between the Office of the A-G and the Scholarship Secretariat, on the one hand, and the Office of the A-G and the Georgetown University Law Center, on the other.
The agreement seeks to implement a joint graduate scholarship programme over the next five years and results from an intention to strengthen the ties between the Georgetown University and the legal fraternity in Ghana, enhance the linkages between the people of Ghana and those of the USA and improve cooperation between the two countries in the field of legal education.
It was made official last Thursday when the Attorney-General visited the USA last week.
Mr. Dame signed the agreement for the A-G’s Office, while the Executive Vice-President and Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, Professor William M. Treanor, signed for his institution.
Under the agreement, the Georgetown Law Center, in collaboration with the Scholarship Secretariat, will offer scholarships to five Ghanaians selected by a selection committee every year, to pursue Master of Laws (LLM) and doctorate in Law (SJD) degrees every year for the next five years.
The committee will be set up between the two parties and chaired by a Ghanaian alumnus of the Georgetown Law Center.
The agreement comes into force immediately and will admit students to the Georgetown Law Center from 2022.