The School of Law of the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS) has received more than 1,000 law textbooks and casebooks from renowned legal practitioner Vincent Kizito Beyuo to boost teaching, research and independent study at the university.
The donation, which includes The All-England Law Reports, Halsbury’s Laws of England, Family Law Reports, The Criminal Law Review, Family Court Reports and Butterworths Family Law Service, comes as the university’s pioneering law programme continues to build the academic resources needed to support legal education in Northern Ghana.
The materials were received on September 24, 2026, at the Upper West Hall of the University.
UBIDS School of Law is the first university law programme established in Northern Ghana, opening a new pathway for students in the region to pursue university-level legal education without having to leave the north.
The School was launched on March 1, 2023, with its first batch of 105 students. Its pioneer cohort graduated in 2025, marking the first time a university in Northern Ghana had produced graduates with Bachelor of Laws degrees.
The latest donation is therefore expected to strengthen the academic foundation of a relatively young law school whose establishment has significantly expanded access to legal education in the northern part of the country.
Receiving the books on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Emmanuel Kanchebe Derbile, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Issaka Kanton Osumanu, expressed appreciation to Mr Beyuo for the gesture.
Professor Kanton said access to current and relevant textbooks and casebooks was particularly important to legal education because students must engage critically with statutes, judicial decisions, legal principles and scholarly interpretations.
The Dean of the School of Law, Professor John Baloro, said the materials would provide valuable resources for classroom instruction, independent study, legal research and academic writing.
Mr Beyuo said he donated the books out of a personal conviction to support quality teaching, learning, research and the academic development of students, particularly law students at UBIDS.
He also pledged to provide more reading materials to the university community.
“I have been a true beneficiary of reading books in the Law School, and that is what has made me what I am today. In the near future, the best Law scholars should come from the Upper West Region of Ghana,” he said.
Mr Beyuo was called to the Ghana Bar in 1993 and has more than three decades of legal practice. He is the Managing Partner of Beyuo & Co, which he established in 2008, and practises in areas including corporate and commercial law, litigation and arbitration.
He also lectures in Civil Litigation at the University of Ghana School of Law and has served on the governing council of the University of Professional Studies, Accra, and the Ghana Prisons Council.
The President of the Law Students Union, Mr Tinus Tuozie, thanked Mr Beyuo and his law firm for their support for legal education.
“The only way to update the software in one’s head, which is our brain, is through reading, and this gesture helps us to do exactly that,” he said.
The donation adds more than 1,000 legal reference materials to the resources available to students and faculty and reinforces the role of professional partnerships in supporting the development of the UBIDS School of Law.
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