Josephine Jarpa Dawuni is an associate professor of political science. She is a qualified barrister at law from the Ghana School of Law and holds a PhD in political science from Georgia State University. She is the editor of Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice in Africa (Lexington, 2022), Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa: Selected Studies (Routledge, 2021), International Courts and the African Woman Judge (Routledge, 2018) (edited with Akua Kuenyehia) and Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity? (Routledge, 2016) (edited with Gretchen Bauer). She is the founder and executive director of the Institute for African Women in Law.