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Professor Christina Murray is President of the ANCL, as well as being a convenor of the TCL Working Committee.
Between February 2009 and October 2010 she served as a member of the Kenyan Committee of Experts appointed by the Kenyan Parliament to draft a new Constitution of Kenya. That Constitution was approved by Kenyans in a referendum in August 2010 and promulgated on 27 October 2010. (See http://www.coekenya.go.ke/)
Between 1994 and 1996 Professor Murray served on a panel of seven experts advising the South African Constitutional Assembly in drafting South Africa's 'final' Constitution. Since then she has advised a number of government departments in South Africa on the implementation of the new system of multi-level government and worked with South Africa's national Parliament and many of its nine provincial legislatures. In addition to Kenya, her most recent constitutional work outside South Africa has concerned Southern Sudan, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
Christina Murray has taught and written on the law of contract, human rights law (and particularly issues relating to gender equality, violence against women, constitutional rights for women and African customary law), international law, and constitutional law (particularly multilevel government, fiscal federalism and traditional leadership).
Between 1992 and 2004 she was director of UCT's Law, Race and Gender Research Unit. LRG's main work was in the field of judicial education on social context issues, especially on race and gender.
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