President Epeli Nailatikau Nationality Kenyan | Name Yash Ghai Role Academic | |
Born 20 October 1938 (age 85)
Nairobi, Kenya Colony ( 1938-10-20 ) Alma mater Oxford (BA), (MA), (DCL)
Harvard University (LLM) Education University of Oxford, Harvard University Positions Lecturer, Yale Law School, Research fellow, Uppsala University Books Hong Kong's New Con, The Millennium Declarati, Ethnicity - Democracy and Hum, Public law and political c, Kenya's Constitution: An Instru | ||
Hun sen s tirade against un special envoy yash ghai
Yash Pal Ghai (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.
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- Hun sen s tirade against un special envoy yash ghai
- Early life and education
- Career
- Honours and awards
- Honours
- Awards
- Honorary
- References
Early life and education
His grandparents were Khukhrain who came from North India, and were part of the waves of migration sponsored by the British Empire. His father sent Ghai to Oxford to study.
Career
He was the Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong starting in 1989. He has been an Honorary Professor there since his retirement in 2005. Prior to that, Ghai taught and did research in law at the University of Warwick, Uppsala University in Sweden, the International Legal Center in New York City, and Yale Law School. He has also taught courses at the University of Wisconsin Law School, as part of an exchange program. He was the Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (which attempted to write a modern constitution for Kenya) from 2000 to 2004. Professor Ghai is also recently selected by the Fijian Military Government to be the Chairperson of Fiji's Constitutional Committee.
Ghai has also advised and assisted NGOs on human rights law-related work. He drafted the Asian Human Rights Charter—A People's Charter, a project of the Asian Human Rights Commission.
Ghai has written several books on law in Africa, the Pacific islands, and elsewhere.
Honours and awards
Professor Ghai has received the following honours and awards: