Akosua Asafu-Adjaye Frimpong is a third year JD candidate at Emory University School of Law. In June 2025, she traveled to South Africa to represent Emory at the Stellenbosch International Conference on Aggregate Litigation, where she presented her research on “Leveraging Aggregate Litigation to Achieve Economic Justice in Tobacco-Dependent Economies”. Currently, she is working with the Carter Center on projects at the intersection of law, policy, and global development, serves as a teaching assistant for Business Associations, and is a team liaison of Emory’s Transactional Law Negotiations Team. 

Her academic and professional interests center on international law, policy, and dispute resolution, with experience ranging from legal and regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C., to environmental law and global public health. Before law school, Frimpong graduated summa cum laudefrom McMaster University in Canada with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Justice, Political Philosophy, and Law, with minors in Globalization studies and Sociology.