George W. Kanyeihamba

Justice Professor Dr. George W. Kanyeihamba is one of the leading jurists in the field of constitutional and human rights law in Uganda. He has been a Cabinet Minister, a Member of Parliament and a Justice of the Supreme Court but also as the chair of the Legal Committee of the Constituent Assembly that made the country’s 1995 Constitution. On the international plane, he has worked as a legal expert on the revision of the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights. He has been part of several fact finding missions for the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International commission of Jurists in countries including Kenya and Swaziland. In 2006 he was elected a Judge of the African Court of Justice/Human and Peoples Rights and as a Member of the International Criminal Bar Association council.