Some of its alumni in Kenya include Prof. The institution boasts of notable alumni: Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, and several Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. It was named after the College’s first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, established in 1636. His choice of Harvard cannot be disputed. I liked that what impressed them was my idea and not my age.” Oldest higher education institution in the US They were impressed but not overly wowed by the fact that I was not yet a graduate student. What was it like, being among those steeped in academia and research for years? “Most of those who presented at the conferences were Professors and PhD students. Apart from the visit to Harvard, he presented two other papers: Reconsidering the East African Court of Justice’s Nyong’o decision and its Aftermath’ which was presented at the Supranational Courts PhD seminar and conference at the University of Luxembourg, and an ‘Overview of the State of the Right to Administrative Justice in Kenya’ presented at the Workshop on Administrative Justice Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa, in Gaborone, Botswana. Now we are pleased it is stable being in its 5 th volume.” Luxembourg and BotswanaĢ018 was a good year for him. “My time at the Law Review wasn’t easy as we had to figure things out for the first time. I have also always liked writing and I am comfortable surrounded by books and ideas, so research writing became fairly automatic.”ĭuring his time at the Law School, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the first two volumes of the Strathmore Law Review and worked as an Editor with the Strathmore University Press, playing a key role in the publication of a variety of texts. “I’ve had lecturers who transmitted their passion for academia and research to me. His love for writing, books and research has led him here. He will be going back to Harvard Law School in September 2019, this time as a Masters of Laws (LL.M) student after securing a slot among the 189 out of nearly 2000 applicants from about 70 countries that will make up the LL.M cohort of 2020. I then saw a call for papers on the Harvard website, sent the paper and it got accepted.”Ĭecil’s presentation on Transformative Constitutions examined the use of preparatory documents such as the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission Report (for Kenya) and the Multi Party Negotiating Process Reports (for South Africa) in rights decisions, using the Federalist Papers (the United States) as a case study. By the end of the debate though, I had conceptualized a paper. I am sure I did but Harrison says he won. “A colleague organized a debate on the death penalty. He will be joining the 2020 Harvard Law School cohort in September 2019Ī debate between Cecil Yongo and Harrison Otieno at the Strathmore Law School (SLS) sparked off an idea for a research paper that sent Cecil to the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy Annual Conference in 2018.
Cecil Yongo, a graduate assistant at the Strathmore Law School.
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