Christina Murray (Emeritus Professor) is currently living in London, serving a third term as a senior member of the Mediation Support Standby Team of the United Nations’ Department of Political Affairs with a focus on constitutions and power-sharing. Before this Christina worked on the constitutional support team of the Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations on Yemen.

In 2012 Christina was a member of the Constitution Commission of Fiji. 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 became law in Kenya on 27 August 2010.

Prof Murray’s first experience in constitution-making was serving on a panel of seven experts advising the South African Constitutional Assembly in drafting South Africa’s ‘final’ Constitution between 1994 and 1996. In addition to Yemen, Kenya and Fiji, her most recent constitutional work outside South Africa has concerned Somalia, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, South Sudan, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.

Christina has taught and written on 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 (including systems of government, multilevel government, fiscal federalism and traditional leadership). She was head of the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town from 2002 – 2008 and Deputy Dean of the Law Faculty from 2000 – 2002.

She has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson School in Princeton and the United States Institute for Peace, among others.

Events participated in:

Where Next for the Rainbow Nation?: Former South African Ambassador to the USA Ebrahim Rasool and Constitutional Human Rights Lawyer Christina Murray talk about the future of South Africa. (2017)