Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

GIALS Aims to:

 

• initiate research into important issues of law reform, legal institutional development and judicial administrtion in Ghana, the West African & ECOWAS sub-regions. 

• provide an avenue for the discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas regarding development of the law in Africa and Ghana in particular, and in doing so act as the channel of communication to other similar research institutions worldwide.

 
• promote advanced legal education in the country, and conduct educational programmes for members of the legal profession and others involved in the operation of law enforcement systems, i.e. the Judiciary, Police Service, Prison Services, Military Police, Immigration Service, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice and Social Welfare Department. 

• contribute towards the capacity building of faculty at the Faculty of Law, KNUST and other law faculties within the country. 

• develop a library and database of all existing legal materials, particularly legislation, law reports, international agreements and legal treatises which will become a national legal resource. 

• establish a Ghana legal information institute which will compile for public access a database of Ghana primary legal materials. 

• provide specialisation in law relating to various aspects of the country’s economic activities, such as oil and gas, petroleum & petrochemicals and mining laws, investment and intellectual property laws. 

• stimulate professional and public interest in the administration of justice through programmes of public engagement to encourage public awareness of the legal system and contribute to the development of training for citizenship in schools and colleges.