Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a Professor of Law and former Dean at the School of Law, University of Nairobi. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and was conferred the rank of Senior Counsel in 2012. She was a member of the Committee of Eminent Persons appointed by His Excellency the President of Kenya in February 2006 to advise the government on the way forward for the stalled constitution review process. She was also awarded an honorary degree in law by the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2017 for outstanding contribution to research through ground-breaking work cutting across established fields such as Women’s Law, Natural Resources Law, Human Rights and Law and Development. Kameri-Mbote earned her doctorate from Stanford University in 1999 specializing in property rights and environmental law. She had earlier studied law in Nairobi, Warwick, and Zimbabwe. She has taught law globally for the last 29 years and currently teaches Women, Access to Re-sources and the Law at the Southern and Eastern Africa Research Centre on Women’s Law (SEARCWL); Property Law and Equality Law at the University of Nairobi.

She is an engaged and public spirited global citizen who has served and currently serves on various national, regional and international boards such as: the Global Council of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP); the International Development Law Organization (IDLO); Lewa Wildlife Conservancy; Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE-Uganda); the Kenya Land Conservation Trust; Chair, Kenya School of Law Board; Chair, Water Ser-vices Regulatory Board (WASREB); and the Pell Centre for International Relations, Salve Regina University, Rhode Island, among others. Kameri-Mbote has published widely in her areas of research interest - international law, environmental law, women’s rights, legal education, rule of law and property rights - and participated in international, regional, national, and local conferences.