With the country in the grip of a global pandemic and grappling with an ailing economy, is constitutional reform a priority when it’s not clear that...
The current crop of politicians is demanding for a constitutional change barely 10 years into the 2010 constitutional era. These calls for constitutional change are being...
The 2010 Kenyan constitution has been hailed as a governing masterpiece. Now in light of possible changes through the BBI referendum critical questions about the necessity...
The Supreme Court's edict to President Kenyatta on the 2/3rds gender rule was the only legal way to go argues Prof. Makau Mutua. However, while the...
The Supreme Court’s ‘advisory’ to President Kenyatta emerged out of a constitution that anticipates the President’s recalcitrance with regards to issues such as the 2/3rds gender...
The Chief Justice's advisory on the two-thirds gender rule to the President is the most consequential decision of the Supreme Court to date. Constitutional lawyer and...
Kenya's journey towards a liberal constitution has been long and twisting. The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) anticipates still undefined changes on the ten-year constitution that some...
Atsango Chesoni, lawyer, renowned human rights advocate, former deputy chairperson of the Committee of Experts (COE) that finalised the current constitution, former Bomas delegate in the...
Renown PanAfricanist academic and constitutional lawyer, Prof. Issa G Shivji reflects on the trajectory of constitution-making in Africa. He makes the compelling argument that while we...
The undermining of the 2010 constitution by the Executive and an emasculated opposition that has failed to defend constitutionalism threaten to unravel thirty years of constitution-building...
Radical lawyers must recognise the limits of bourgeois law and constitutions because, by its very nature, law individualises collective demands thus fragmenting social struggles and undermining...
The current wrangles in the senate on the revenue allocation formula are a classic example of how the constitution is designed to respond in order to...
