Samuel Kofi Date-Bah JSC FGA (August 26, 1943) is a Ghanaian academic and a former Supreme Court Judge in Ghana and the Gambia.
[4] In the 1970s, he was a Member of the Ghana Law Reform Commission and Between 1969 and 1979 he was a part-time legal practitioner in Accra.
[7] Between 1984 and 2003 Professor Date-Bah was the Special Adviser (Legal) at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London responsible for effective legal advisory and negotiating services to the developing member states of the Commonwealth.
He played instrumental role as leader of a multidisciplinary Commonwealth Secretariat team which assisted the first independence Government of Namibia to negotiate a joint-venture agreement with De Beers that has been the bedrock of the Namibian economy since then; and several petroleum exploration agreements with international petroleum companies on behalf of the government.
In the 1970s, Representative of the Ghana Government to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.