Yash Pal Ghai CBE | |
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Chairman of the 2013 Constitutional Commission, Fiji Commission | |
In office June 2012 – December 2012 | |
President | Epeli Nailatikau |
Personal details | |
Born | Nairobi, Kenya Colony | 20 October 1938
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | Oxford (BA), (MA), (DCL) Harvard University (LLM) |
Occupation | Constitutional Lawyer |
Profession | Lawyer |
Positions | Professor, UEA–DAR (1968-70) Lecturer, Yale Law (1971-73) Research fellow, Uppsala (1973-78) Professor, Warwick (1978-89) Professor, HKU (1989-) |
Yash Pal Ghai CBE (born 20 October 1938) is a Kenyan academic in constitutional law. As of 2007 he is the head of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal. Until 2008, he was a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cambodia on human rights. In September 2008, he resigned his post, following bitter arguments with the Government of Cambodia. [1] He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005. Yash Pal Ghai is a writer and a poet .His known texts majoring in constitutional law discourse in Africa