Yash Ghai

Yash Pal Ghai
CBE
Chairman of the 2013 Constitutional Commission, Fiji Commission
In office
June 2012 – December 2012
PresidentEpeli Nailatikau
Personal details
Born (1938-10-20) 20 October 1938 (age 85)
Nairobi, Kenya Colony
Political partyIndependent
Alma materOxford (BA), (MA), (DCL)
Harvard University (LLM)
OccupationConstitutional Lawyer
ProfessionLawyer
PositionsProfessor, UEADAR (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.


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