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Muna Ndulo (LLB, Zambia, Harvard; D. Phil, Oxford), Professor of Law; Elizabeth and Arthur Reich Director of the Leo and Arvilla Berger International Legal Studies Program;  and Director of the Institute for African Development at Cornell University, is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution-making, governance, human rights, and foreign direct investment. He is also Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and Extra Ordinary Professor of Law at the Free State University, South Africa. Early in his career he was a Professor of Law and later Dean of the Law School at the University of Zambia. In 1986 he joined the UN as Legal Officer for the Commission on International Trade Law and subsequently served in many capacities, including Senior Political Advisor to South Africa and Senior Legal Advisor on missions to East Timor, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. He has consulted on constitution-making in Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Somalia; he has also been a consultant for international organizations including the African Development Bank; the ECA; the International Foundation for Electoral Systems; and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. He recently established the Southern African Institute for Public Policy and Research, and he is a member of the Advisory Committee, Human Rights Watch, and Chairperson of Gender Links, a South African NGO. He has published well over one hundred journal articles and fourteen books, including Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa (with Margaret Grieco, 2009); and Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance in the Commonwealth: An Eastern and Southern African Perspective (2004).

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