Kwame Clement is the founding President/Dean of the Liberia School of Law. He has more than 23 years of legal experience practicing and teaching law in the United States and Liberia. Kwame has a BSc in Economics from the University of Liberia and a JD with highest honors from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. Upon graduation from law school, Kwame won a prestigious U.S. Federal Judicial clerkship and served as a law clerk to Judge Carlos F. Lucero of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. He subsequently practiced antitrust law and securities litigation at the top-ranked law firm of Arnold and Porter in Washington, DC and then served as a Senior Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he helped lead the investigation and prosecution of violations of the federal securities laws. For the last seven years, Kwame has taught Torts and Constitutional Law as an unpaid volunteer at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law.