Nancy Baraza holds a PhD in law from the University of Nairobi. She is a senior lecturer and Chairperson of the department of Public law, School of Law, University of Nairobi. She teaches Jurisprudence, Access to Justice, Social Foundations of law and Family law. Her areas of research interest are Human Rights, Gender and the Law, Constitutional law and family law. Dr. Baraza has served as the first Deputy Chief Justice and Vice-President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kenya. She served as a commissioner with the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission which made the draft, laying basis for the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. She served as the Vice Chairperson of the Kenya Law Reform Commission and oversaw the major reforms in family law. She is a founder member of the Federation of Women Lawyers of Kenya, a premier women’s rights organization which is credited with influencing the women’s rights currently recognised and protected in the Constitution and consequential legislation. She served as its Chairperson between 1995 to 1998. Dr. Baraza has been participant in crucial international human rights conferences that have ensured major gains for women’s human rights, to wit, the 4th UN Women’s conference held in Beijing and the Vienna conference of 1993. She has been a legal practitioner under the firm name and style of Nancy Baraza and Company, She currently consults for the UN.
LOCAL RESEARCHERS - KENYA
Kennedy Kimani. LLB (Moi University), PGDip in Law (Kenya School of Law), LLM Candidate – Public International Law 2018/2019 (University of Nairobi). Kennedy is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and is currently working as the Regional Coordinator for Child Rights Governance and Child Poverty at Save the Children’s Regional Programme Unit (RPU), East and Southern Africa (ESA).