Education
Harvard Law School; University of Oxford.
Harvard Law School; University of Oxford.
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 United Nations Secretary General in Cambodia on human rights. In September 2008, he resigned his post, following bitter arguments with the Government of Cambodia.
He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005.
His father sent Ghai to Oxford to study. He was the Sir Yukon Territory 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, 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 Non-governmental organizations 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 Honorary.
Professor Ghai has received the following honours and awards: Papua New Guinea: Independence Medal, 1976 Vanuatu: Independence Medal, 1979 New Hebrides: Queen"s Medal for Distinguished Service, 1980 United Kingdom: Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1980 2001: Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the University of Hong Kong University of the South Pacific, Honorary degree, 1995 Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Honorary fellow, 1997 Law Society of Kenya, Honorary Life Member, 1998 Queen"s University, Canada, Honorary Doctorate of Laws (Doctor of Laws), 2014.
