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Kwaku Akowuah joined Mayer Brown in December 2006, after clerking for the
Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
and the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of New York. Since joining the firm, Kwaku has authored
appellate briefs in a number of state and federal courts, including multiple
petitions for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court. These briefs have addressed
a wide variety of subjects, including punitive damages, federal preemption, and
federal common law.
Kwaku received his A.B. in 1999 from Princeton University, where he studied
public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
After college, he was awarded a year-long fellowship by the Deutscher
Akademischer Austausch Dienst to continue his studies on contemporary German
foreign policy at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. During his time in
Berlin, Kwaku also worked as a journalist and editor at Die Welt, a
leading daily newspaper with national circulation. He graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard Law School in 2004.
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