Team

Academic Committee

The TGCL is headed by an Academic Committee. As the leading organ of the centre, it is responsible, inter alia, for the strategic development of the TGCL. Both partner universities are equally represented in the Academic Committee.

The current members are

• Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime
  TGCL Project Leader
   
• Dr Sosteness Materu
  Dean, University of Dar es Salaam School of Law
   
• Petro Protas
  TGCL Coordinator
   
• Isabelle Zundel
  TGCL Manager

Management Board

All day-to-day coordination is handled by the Cooperation Management Board, comprising:

• Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime
  TGCL Project Leader
  
  

• Petro Protas
  TGCL Coordinator
  
  

• Isabelle Zundel
  TGCL Manager

Programme Adviser

Prof. Dr Richard Frimpong Oppong – LLB (Ghana), LLM (Cambridge), LLM (Harvard), PhD (UBC), FGA – is Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law, in British Columbia, Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Oppong serves as TGCL Programme Adviser.

His principal research interests are in private international law, regional economic integration and international dispute settlement, with a special focus on Africa. He has published widely on these subjects.

Assistant to the TGCL Coordinator

Ms Lilian Masalu LLM is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law and Assistant to the TGCL Coordinator.

 
 

Administration

Administrative staff members of the TGCL in Dar es Salaam are Assistant Accountant Mr Mohamed Mussa and Office Assistant Ms Maria Paulo.

Supervisors and Lecturers

Members of the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law supervise the LLM dissertations and PhD theses.

Staff members of the UDSM School of Law also hold the major courses, supplemented in specific areas, both legal and interdisciplinary, by scholars from the University of Bayreuth and other universities.