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Prof Luis G. Franceschi:

Prof Luis G. Franceschi, LLB, LL.M, LL.D is Founding Dean of Strathmore University Law

School, which is today regarded as one of the most reputable and innovative law schools in

Africa. As a thinker, educator and writer, he loves positive and disruptive innovation. He is

currently engaged on the Courts of the Future initiative, where he has brought together

academia, practitioners, governments and judicial officers to transform the way justice

systems operate in Africa. He is the recipient of the 2018 Utumishi Bora National Award in

Research & Writing, the 2016 Australian Award and Visiting Fellowship at Griffith Law

School (Brisbane) and he has been appointed as Visiting Fellow of Mansfield College during

his visit to Oxford.

 

His area of expertise focuses on the convergence between Constitutional law and Public

International Law “the constitutional regulation of the foreign affairs power”. He is also a

legal advisor to several national and international government agencies, commissions and

programmes, including international and regional courts, the United Nations and the World

Bank. He sits on several boards: Transparency International (Kenya), the International

Justice Commission (The Hague), the African Prisons Project (London), the Africa Legal

Network (ALN) Academy (Mauritius), the International Association of Law Schools (New

York), among others.

 

His latest publications include “The Rule of Law, Human Rights and Judicial Control of

Power”, Springer; “Judicial Independence and Accountability in Light of judiciary Code of Conduct and Ethics of Kenya” ICJ Kenya; “The Cost of the Constitution in Kenya: A Cost

Analysis of the New Governance Framework Introduced by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya”,

Harvard Africa Policy Review; “The Constitution of Kenya; A Commentary” (a 900-page

article by article commentary of the Constitution), SUP (second edition); and “The African

Human Rights Judicial System; Streamlining Structures and Domestications Mechanisms

Viewed from the Foreign Affairs Power Perspective”. He is also a weekly columnist with the

Daily Nation Newspaper (Kenya). He has also conducted executive leadership courses for

CEOs in more than 25 countries. He is a Kenyan citizen and resides in Nairobi.