Dr Nuhu Yidana

Biography 

Dr Nuhu Yidana is a Lecturer in Law at the College of Law, SOAS University of London, where he also serves as Undergraduate Programme Convenor. He convenes and teaches Contract Law and Consumer Law and contributes to the teaching of Commercial Law in a Global Context, a module he previously co-convened. He has also contributed to the teaching of Transnational Law, Finance and Technology. Other academic leadership roles Dr Yidana has held within the College of Law include Convenor for First-Year Undergraduate students and Convenor for the LLM International Commercial and Economic Law programme during the 2022/2023 and 2024/2025 academic years. 

His research lies at the intersection of Consumer Law, Commercial Law, Contract Law, and Comparative Law, with a particular interest in the interaction between legal systems in the Global South and the Global North. His work has been published in reputable academic outlets, including his recent book, Consumer Law and Policy on Faulty Goods: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in Ghana and the UK (Springer, 2025). He welcomes PhD research proposals in his areas of research interest. 

Before joining SOAS, Dr Yidana taught at Tamale Technical University in Ghana, where he served as Senior Lecturer, having previously held the positions of Lecturer, Assistant Lecturer, and Principal Instructor. He has also held academic positions as a Sessional Lecturer in Contract Law at the University of Hull and as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Professional Studies, Accra. In addition, he has taught Commercial Law and Legal Environment of Business as a part-time lecturer at the University of Applied Management and Valley View University in Ghana. 

Dr Yidana holds a PhD in Law and a Postgraduate Diploma in Research from the University of Hull, an LLM in England and Wales from Leeds Beckett University, a Commonwealth Executive MBA, and a BA in Law and Sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. 

He serves as a reviewer for several academic journals, including the Journal of African Law, the International Journal of Law in Context, and the Thunderbird International Business Review. He also serves as an external examiner for universities in Ghana and the United Kingdom. 

Dr Yidana is a Council Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and serves as the Law and Society Track Chair of the Ghana Scholarly Society. He is also a member of the International Association of Consumer Law. 

Selected publications

• Nuhu Yidana, ‘Sale in the ordinary course of business under Ghana law: Recent developments and lessons from the UK’ (2021) 42 (3) Business Law Review 136 -142. See on Kluwerlawonline.com
• Nuhu Yidana, ‘Enacting a Consumer Protection Law in Ghana: Possible lessons from the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015’ (2020), 6(4) Law Research Review Quarterly, 323-342
• Nuhu Yidana, ‘The consumer in the midst of two distinct terms for the quality of goods in Ghana: Can the law be simplified?’ (2020), 94 Journal of Law, Policy and Globalisation, 168- 176. 

Crisis and consumer protection in Africa; quality of goods (obligations, remedies, and redress in Ghana and the UK as influenced in EU law); the African Continental Free Trade Area and consumer contract law.