Ghana’s Dr. Sylvia Ama Adusu has made history at the United Nations by becoming the first African woman to be elected as Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for the term 2026–2035. She won with 130 out of 169 votes cast– which surpassed the required two-thirds majority of 113 votes present. Dr Adusu’s election came during the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), held on 18 June 2026 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The newly-elected Jurist is a former Chief State Attorney and head of International law in the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry Justice of Ghana. She holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Lancaster, in the UK, where her research focused on the delimitation and conservation of marine resources under UNCLOS within the context of “Cooperation over Gulf of Guinea Resources.” She lectures part-time on the Law of the Sea at the University of Ghana and teaches Civil Procedure at the Ghana School of Law. She has also presented conference papers on subjects relating to the Law of the Sea. She has represented the Republic before....
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