Yash Ghai
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| Yash Pal Ghai | |
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| Born | [[Missing required parameter 1=month! Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{"]] 1938 Kenya |
| Occupation | Scholar in Constitututional Law |
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Yash Pal Ghai (born 1938, Kenya) is a scholar in constitutional law. As of 2007 he is the head of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal and a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cambodia on human rights. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005.
He was the Sir YK 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 1995. 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 was the Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (which attempted to write a modern constitution for Kenya) from 2000 to 2004.
Ghai has written several books on law in Africa, the Pacific islands, and elsewhere.
