UpClose With Ekow Yankah

This month’s member spotlight features Ekow Yankah, professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Yankah holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Columbia Law School and Oxford University. His work focuses on questions of political and criminal theory and particularly, questions of political obligation and justifications of punishment.

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