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.
