Godwin Djokoto Esq. holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon and Master of Laws(LL.M) degree from the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Godwin is an active private legal practitioner having been called to the Ghana Bar in 2003. His expertise covers Banking law, Maritime Law, Banking, Corporate Law, Land Law, Intellectual Property Law among others.
Godwin also teaches in the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon, where he teaches among other subjects Law of the Sea, Equity, Succession, Law of Contract, Banking Law (under Commercial Law), Immovable Property Law and recently Public International Law. He has in the recent past taught at the Ghana School of Law on the Career Magistrates’ Programme and GIMPA Faculty of Law as a Visiting Lecturer. He has written and published peer reviewed articles including on banking, maritime law and international law. He is the author of the book, The Law of Mortgages in Ghana.
Godwin also has extensive banking industry experience having worked and risen through the ranks to head the Legal Department of the erstwhile Intercontinental Bank Limited. Previously, he also worked at the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague as an intern, where he worked on the Legal Tools Project with specific task of writing a commentary on the admissibility and presentation of evidence under the Rome Statute.
Godwin has extensive experience in legal consultancy. As a consultant, with a wide scope of interest, he has carried out consultancies in the fields of Law of the Seas, banking, international fisheries management, land law, regulation of the construction industry and many others. Godwin has served as resource person for a number of organisations including the Commercial Court, the Ghana Shippers Authority, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature(IUCN) and the Ascertainment of Customary Law Project on varied subjects. He was also a Member of the International Panel of Experts appointed by the FAO (of the UN) and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in the United Kingdom to review the Technical Guidelines for lawyers in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure (VGGT) relating to land, forestry and fisheries. He is also a member of the Legal and Technical Team working on the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Boundary Arbitration before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Seas(ITLOS). Finally, Godwin is a member of the World Jurist Association and the Ghana Bar Association.