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Meet Prof Patricia Mbote, the trailblazer

Today is the 62nd graduation ceremony for the University of Nairobi and over ten thousand graduates are graduating in over eight thousand degrees and diplomas. Among notable graduands is Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote who will graduate with a higher doctorate degree in Law (LL.D) which makes her the first woman in East Africa and the UoN to  attain this achievement.

Professor Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a Founding Research Director of (IELRC), and the Programme Director for Africa. She studied law at the University of Nairobi, the University of Warwick, the University of Zimbabwe and pursued her doctoral studies at Stanford Law School. She is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Nairobi and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.



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She has  taught international environmental law at the University of Kansas. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, a board member of the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE-Uganda) and Women and Law in East Africa (WLEA). She has consulted for many international and national agencies including the World Bank, United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the government of Kenya.

She has published widely in the areas of international law, environmental law, women's rights and property rights. Her research interests include public international law, environment and natural resources law and policy, human rights, women's rights, intellectual property rights, biotechnology policy and law and economic law.

Info about Prof Mbote has been extracted from the University's website.