Bernadette Atuahene

About the Author

Bernadette Atuahene is the Frances and John Duggan Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.  She has served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, practiced at a New York law firm, and worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the South African Land Claims Commission. She is the author of We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Problem. Atuahene has published extensively in academic journals such as NYU Law Review and the California Law Review. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, NPR’s Democracy Now!, and the Washington Post among others.