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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Prof Yash Pal Ghai CBE



The legal expert with broad expertise in constitutional matters was born in 1938 in Nairobi. Many Kenyans remember him as the chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review commission (CKRC), a commission he led from 2000 to 2004. He’s the current Director of Katiba Institute and a member of the advisory board of the Asian Commission of Human Rights.
 On 9th March 2012, Fiji Leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama announced that he would head a five member Constitutional commission tasked to draft a new constitution for Fiji.

He earned a BA (1961), MA (1990) and DCL (1992) degrees from Oxford University. He was called to the English bar from Middle Temple in 1962 where he was a barrister and received an LL.M from Harvard University in 1963.

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