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Title: 
Professor
Full Name: 
Christina Murray
About: 
Christina Murray is currently the President of the ANCL-RADC African Network of Constitutional Lawyers. She is also an Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Lawyers http://www.iacl-aidc.org/ She is Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the University of Cape Town. She served as a member of the Committee of Experts established by the Kenyan Parliament to prepare a draft constitution (please visit http://ancl-radc.org.za/en/kenya). Between 1994 and 1996 she served on a panel of seven experts advising the South African Constitutional Assembly in drafting South Africa's 'final' Constitution.   Since 1997, most of Professor Murray’s work has been on constitution making, constitutional design and the implementation of new constitutions, particularly, South Africa’s. In South Africa she has worked with the national Treasury and provincial governments (implementing the fiscal elements of the new decentralized system of government) and with the national Parliament and nine provincial legislatures. Work elsewhere includes Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Southern Sudan, Nepal and Bolivia. Advancing Womens RightsIn 2005 she published Advancing Women’s Rights: the first decade of democracy, edited with Michelle O’Sullivan.   She has also recently published papers on traditional leadership, political opposition, multilevel government, the executive under South Africa’s constitution, and ethnicity in South Africa’s constitutional design. At the University of Cape Town, Professor Murray teaches constitutional law. From 1996 – 2002 she was director of the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit: http://www.lrg.uct.ac.za/   CURRENT POSITION 1994 – Present Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law University of Cape Town. 2004 - 2008 Head of the Department of Public Law University of Cape Town   RECENT PREVIOUS UNIVERSITY POSITIONS 2000 - 2002 Deputy Dean, Law Faculty University of Cape Town 1995 – 2004 Director, Law, Race and Gender Research Unit, University of Cape Town   SOME OTHER RECENT POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES 2007 - Present Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (a regional affiliate of the International Association of Constitutional Law) 2005 – 2006 Member of Panel of Experts constituted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva on Parliamentary Democracy 2004 Month’s Residency at Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Centre at Bellagio 2003 - Present Member of AGRED (Advisory Group of Experts on Decentralization) United Nations Habitat 2001 - Present Alternate member of the South African Judicial Service Commission September 1999 Honorary Visiting Professor University of Toronto Law Faculty 1999 - Present Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law 1999 - Present Visiting Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 1997 - 2004 Member of the South African Advisory Board to the Canada-South Africa Linkage Project 1995 - 1996 Member of the panel of seven constitutional experts appointed under s72 of the Interim Constitution, to advise the South African Constitutional Assembly on the drafting of South Africa 's Final Constitution Constitution Member of the ‘technical refinement team’ of the South African Constitutional Assembly convened to deal with technical drafting issues
Nationality: 
South Africa
Fields of expertise: 
Administrative Justice
Constitution-making
Courts and The Judiciary
Elections/Electoral Systems
Federalism
Legislatures
Rights
The Executive
Womens Rights
Postal Address: 
Public Law Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Telephone: 
+254 71 060 2252
Fax Number: 
+ 27 21 650 5607
Gender: 
Female
Institutional Affiliation: 
UCT