Dr. Djokoto is also Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law where he teaches, among others, Immovable Property Law, Banking Law, Equity and Succession, Contract Law and International Law of the Sea, Legal System and Legal Method, Ocean Law and Policy and the International Maritime Conflict Management.

Dr. Djokoto is a member of the Presidential Committee established to review the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, 2025. He is a member of Ghana’s representatives on the Technical Working Group tasked with responsibility to revise the Treaty establishing the Gulf of Guinea Commission for its revitalization. He was also a member of the expert panel that worked on the Ocean Governance Study for Ghana commissioned by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in 2023. He was also a member of the Legal and Technical Team that represented Ghana in the Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire Maritime Boundary Dispute before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Hamburg, Germany. He was also a Member of the International Panel of  Experts appointed by the FAO (of the UN) and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in the United Kingdom to review the Technical Guidelines for lawyers in the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure (VGGT) relating to land, forestry and fisheries. Dr. Djokoto is also the coordinator of the Ocean Governance Project at the University of Ghana, Legon.

Dr. Djokoto also has extensive experience in legal consultancy. He has carried out consultancies in the fields of banking, international fisheries management, land law, regulation of the construction industry and many others. He has also served as resource person for several organizations including the Commercial Court, the Ghana Shippers Authority, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Ascertainment of Customary Law Project on varied subjects. In 2005, he worked at the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague as an intern. In this capacity, he was tasked with, among others, the responsibility of writing a commentary on the Rome Statute of the ICC particularly on the admissibility and presentation of evidence before the ICC and other international criminal tribunals under the Legal Tools Project.

Dr. Djokoto holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security(ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He also holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws(LL.B) degree from the University of Ghana, Legon. Upon completion of his Qualifying Certificate of Law(QCL) at the Ghana School of Law, Accra, he was called the Ghana Bar in 2003. Dr. Djokoto is a member of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association; International Law Association; World Jurist Association and the Ghana Bar Association. He has authored peer-reviewed articles and author of the book “The Law of Mortgages in Ghana”. He is also the Editor of the Commercial Law Reports of Ghana. Dr. Djokoto is a recipient of the Order of the Volta, Companion in recognition of his role in representing the Republic of Ghana in the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Boundary Delimitation Dispute before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea(ITLOS), in Hamburg.