Marijuana Control Bill, 2018

In 2016, my students and I drafted a Marijuana Control Bill as part of legislative drafting course work. There has been growing debate whether Marijuana should be legalised or decriminalised in [...]

There has been  discussion on whether Kenya needs a national Public Participation Act or policy. There are drafts that had been floating around on the same. A few years ago I was part of a team [...]

We have another Data Protection Bill in circulation. This one has been drafted by the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology. My view is that the ICT Ministry and Senate should [...]

In memory of H.E. Kofi Annan (1938-2018), this week I share a paper I authored in 2014 that was edited and published by International IDEA. The paper analysed the role of the African Union in [...]

When an individual is afflicted by a dependency condition, we do not treat them by according them unfettered access to the substances they are dependent on. It is instructive that such an [...]

Last week I discussed the need to protect data owners from having their data collected, collated, analysed, stored and used without their express consent. Ideally, calling for protection of the [...]

Do the following scenarios ring a bell? 1. You walk into an establishment, you purchase goods or services through MPesa, a few hours or days later, the establishment in bombarding you with [...]

Here are my reflections on the proposed Data Protection Bill, 2018 as presented to the Senate ICT Committee.

  In response to the raging debate on data protection and perhaps in view of the ongoing debate in Europe on the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a Data [...]