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Dr.
Muna Ndulo is a distinguished scholar with
academic accomplishments from Harvard University
and Oxford University (England). He graduated
from the University of Zambia with LL.B.,
in 1970; from Harvard Law School with LL.M.,
in 1971; and from Trinity College, University
of Oxford (England) with D. Phil in 1977.
He is currently a professor of law
at Cornell Law School, and the Director
of the Cornell University’s Institute
for African Development. Dr Ndulo started
his legal career as a public prosecutor
in Zambia. Dr. Ndulo was a professor at
the University of Zambia and a dean for
half a decade. He started teaching at the
Cornell Law School in 1984 as a visiting
professor. He has lectured at several academic
institutions including: the International
Development Law Institute (IDLI) in Rome,
University of Graz, in Austria, and Bayreauth
University in Germany. He has acted as a
consultant to the World Bank; International
Labor Organization (ILO); and Economic Commission
for Africa (ECA).
Between 1986 and 1996, Dr Ndulo served as
Legal Officer with the United
Nations Commissions on International Trade
Law (UNCITRAL), in Vienna,
Austria. He served as Principal Political
Advisor (1992-1994) to Lakdar Brahimi, who
was then Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General, to South Africa, and
currently UN Envoy in Iraq. Dr. Ndulo also
served as Legal Advisor to the United Nations
Missions in East Timor (1999), and Kosovo
(2000). Last summer, he served as Legal
Expert to the
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
(IFES) and was in that capacity seconded
to Afghanistan to work with the Transitional
Government’s Ministry of Justice and
the United Nations Mission to Afghanistan
on election issues. As a Legal Expert, he
played an instrumental role in designing
and writing the law which guided East Timor’s
referendum in 1999. He was also instrumental
last year (2003) in helping the Ministry
of Justice in Afghanistan draft the law
to guide the elections for Afghanistan scheduled
for November 2004. He serves on the Advisory
Committee of Human Rights Watch (Africa)
Division.
Dr. Ndulo’s scholarship focuses
on legal aspects of foreign investments,
international organizations and international
human rights institutions, common law
and African legal systems, and designing
constitutions for post conflict societies.
He is a prolific writer with eight (8)
books, eighty three (83) articles, thirty
nine (39) seminar and conference presentations,
and over fifty (50) newspaper and magazine
articles.
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