Samuel Pinaman Adomako

Samuel is a DPhil in Law candidate at Lincoln College, Oxford. His areas of interests include international trade and investment and commercial dispute resolution. His research interests lie in the balance of interests between investment protection standards and regulatory autonomy of states.

He is a lawyer qualified to practise in Ghana. Prior to Oxford, he worked as an Associate in the Dispute Resolution Department at Templars (Ghana), one of the leading law firms in West Africa. His practice covers a broad range of sectors including international trade and investment, corporate and commercial law and energy and natural resources. He has advised and represented multinationals and state agencies in high-stakes corporate and commercial disputes before all levels of the Ghanaian courts and in international arbitration proceedings. Notably, he advised and assisted Ghana’s national telecommunications regulator, the National Communications Authority, in establishing a statutory dispute resolution committee to resolve telecommunication-related disputes.

In the UK, Samuel has experience working with leading law firms like Linklaters LLP and Boies Schiller Flexner (UK) LLP. He also served as a Research Assistant for the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal at the Marlborough House, London.

Samuel holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) degree and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Law degree from the University of Oxford. He has been awarded multiple academic prizes, including recognition as the overall best graduating student at both the Ghana School of Law (QCL) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (LLB). He was also awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to pursue his studies at Oxford.