Dr Priscilla A. Vitoh is a socio-legal scholar specialising in corporate governance, gender and finance, financial regulation, and global development, with particular expertise in women’s access to finance and inclusive economic participation. She holds a PhD from Warwick Law School and was previously a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester, where she taught Company Law and Contract Law.
She brings over a decade of senior professional experience in the financial services sector across Africa into her academic work. Her industry background spans commercial banking, relationship management, commercial lending, and corporate and organisational governance design and implementation, which strongly informs her practice-oriented approach to legal scholarship. Alongside her academic role, she undertakes consultancy work advising organisations on corporate governance frameworks and gender-responsive policy design. She is also engaged in community-led initiatives that connect legal and policy ideas with practical solutions for inclusive and sustainable development.
Priscilla’s research focuses on corporate governance, finance, and gender in global and comparative perspective, with particular attention to women’s access to finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is especially interested in how property rights, corporate and marital structures, and financial regulation interact to shape who is able to participate in economic life and on what terms.
A central strand of her work examines the relationship between landed property rights, corporate governance arrangements, and bank lending to women entrepreneurs, challenging assumptions underpinning financial inclusion and development policy. Her research combines socio-legal analysis with comparative and empirical methods and is strongly informed by her prior professional experience in commercial banking and financial services.
Priscilla’s current research extends to questions of corporate governance reform, gender diversity, and the role of social and institutional factors, such as social reproductive labour, in shaping economic participation. Her work engages closely with policymakers, financial institutions, and civil society organisations, and aims to contribute to more inclusive and context-sensitive legal and regulatory reform.
Priscilla’s teaching is research-led, forward-thinking, and grounded in practice, combining doctrinal foundations with applied problem-solving and socio-legal perspectives. She currently teaches Company Law and a postgraduate module in Sport, Law and Global Business. She has previously taught Contract Law and Property Law and has contributed to teaching and training across other LLM modules.
Priscilla is a Fellow of Advance HE and is committed to inclusive and reflective legal education.
- ‘Global Frameworks, Local Realities: The Myth of Land Formalisation in Women’s Access to Bank Finance’ (2025) Social & Legal Studies https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663925134711
- ‘When the Corporate Veil Hides the Matrimonial Estate: A Case for Legal Reform in Ghana’ (2025) Journal of African Law 1–17 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855325100715
- ‘Banking on Sustainable Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Regulatory Frameworks for SME Finance in the EU and African Union’ (2025) Thunderbird International Business Review https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.70030
- (with Jude Serbeh-Boateng) ‘Evolving ESG Frameworks in Ghana: Integrating Sustainability in an Emerging Economy’ (2025) Amicus Curiae: Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Special Issue on ESG in Various Jurisdictions https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/amcraesii6&i=865
- ‘Strengthening Women’s Right to Property Acquired during Marriage’ (2023) Cambridge Law Review
- ‘Gender Diversity and Corporate Sustainability Policies’ in Corporate Sustainability in Africa: Responsible Leadership, Opportunities, and Challenges (Springer International Publishing 2023) 297–318