Dr. Kouassi is currently working as a senior legal researcher at the Institute for Criminal law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Freiburg. He graduated in Law and Criminology at the University of Abidjan-Cocody with an empirical research thesis that was funded by UNICEF Côte d’Ivoire. He then received a DAAD scholarship for a PhD at the University of Freiburg. From November 2000 to September 2011 Dr. Kouassi has been a senior researcher and Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Department at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. Meanwhile from September 2006 to June 2011 he has been an Associate Lecturer at the Haute-Alsace University in civil law (commercial and contract law), IUT of Colmar (France). Dr. Kouassi researches in the areas of criminal law (General and Special Section), corporate criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal policy, penology, international private law, international criminal law, human rights and international humanitarian law. As a Doctor of Law and Sociology, Dr. Kouassi lectures (since 2008) at universities in several countries in Africa and has published numerous national and international scientific articles in his field. He has also written various opinions on the Law of Africa south of the Sahara, both for the Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda as well as for German courts, prosecutors and lawyers.
As head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Department Dr. Kouassi has been charged with the drafting of a model criminal law textbook for Francophone countries in Africa, the systematization of Ivorian law through a comparative perspective, the following of legal news (legislative, judicial and doctrinal) of Sub-Saharan Africa countries, the investigation of national prosecutions of crimes against humanity, crimes of genocide and war crimes in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and researching juvenile delinquency and criminal responsibility of third parties, including the issue of child soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
At the same time Dr. Kouassi has been responsible for supervising doctoral and postdoctoral African researchers at the Max Planck Institute. He has organized and participated as an expert in scientific conferences on the law in Africa. Finally, Dr. Kouassi took care of creating and updating a database on law and legal anthropology in Africa as well as writing books and scholarly articles in law, sociology and political science.
Legal resolutions for recurring conflicts and socio-political crises in Africa have still not met the expectations of local people, which led me to develop a research (draft) project with the topic: “Mediation in traditional sub-Saharan Africa law”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Walter Perron, Director of Institute for Criminal law and Criminal Procedure of Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. The aim of this empirical (partly) but comparable legal and sociological research project is, among other, to facilitate the consolidation of peace and especially the pacification of the socio-political crises in Africa.
As a lecturer at the universities of France, Cameroon, Gabon and Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Dr. Kouassi is a member of several scientific associations such as CERDACC (European Centre of Research about Collective Accident and Disaster Law) at the Haute-Alsace’s University, France, active member of African Law Society (Germany), Member of Research Group about African Anthropology and Laws of Charles Louis de Montesquieu University (Côte d’Ivoire), etc.
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