All That You Can’t Leave Behind: Making and Administering Laws in the Select Government Localities of Komenda, Cape Coast, and Accra

Authors

Andrew Freeman, SIT Study Abroad

Home Institution

Trinity College

Publication Date

Fall 2009

Program Name

Ghana: History and Cultures of the African Diaspora

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to understand how laws are created and maintained on the local level in Komenda, Cape Coast, and Accra. It explains how bylaws are created in those localities through the use of the General Assemblies. The paper then examines the judicial system in those same areas. Komenda uses an Arbitration Committee. Cape Coast and Accra both have a Circuit Court and a High Court. After detailing how the legislative and court system function, the paper compares and contrasts the different ways that the legislative and judicial branches are executed.

Disciplines

Law and Society | Public Law and Legal Theory

Recommended Citation

Freeman, Andrew, "All That You Can’t Leave Behind: Making and Administering Laws in the Select Government Localities of Komenda, Cape Coast, and Accra" (2009). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 877.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/877