Court of Appeal Judge Sankale ole Kantai has been arrested in connection with Dutch business tycoon Tob Cohen’s murder.

The judge was arrested on Friday February 21, 2020 and is currently at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations offices in Kiambu county.

Cohen went missing in July and the police found his body in an empty water tank in his home compound on September 13. It was a brutal murder.

The widow of Cohen, Sarah wairimu had been detained in connection with the murder but was later released on bail.

Sex, violence and property were at the heart the divorce between Cohen and his wife Sarah Wairimu.

More details to follow…..

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The Kenyan Judiciary was on Monday dealt a blow following the death of Court of Appeal Judge Otieno Odek who was reported to have collapsed in his house in Kisumu.

Professor Odek died aged 56 years with leaders led by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his ODM counterpart Raila Odinga mourning him as a person of legal mind whose demise deals a blow to a whole nation.

Below is a copy of his 22-paged Curriculum Vitae.

CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME:                                              PROFESSOR JAMES OTIENO-ODEK

PERMANENT ADDRESS:             P O BOX 10053-00100 NAIROBI, KENYA

MAILING ADDRESS:                    UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

                                                            FACULTY OF LAW

                                                            PARKLANDS CAMPUS

                                                            P O BOX 30197

                                                            NAIROBI

                                                            KENYA

TELEPHONE NUMBER:               254-2-243225

FAX NUMBER:                                254-2-242155

E-MAIL:                                            otienoodek@yahoo.com

DATE OF BIRTH:                           18^TH OCTOBER 1963

NATIONALITY:                              KENYAN

PROFESSION:                                 LAWYER

EDUCATION

1991- JAN 1995:        UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA: Attained Doctor of

Juridical Science (JSD) Degree.

1988-1989:                  YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A.

                                    Attained Master of Laws Degree (LLM).

1987-1988:                  KENYAN SCHOOL OF LAW, NAIROBI, KENYA.  Attained Diploma in Law

1984-1987:                  UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI KENYA.  Attained Bachelor of

Laws, First Class Honours (LLB, 1^st Class Hons.)

1981-1982:                  UASIN GISHU HIGH SCHOOL, ELDORET, KENYA.  Attained

Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (Advanced Level – 3

Principles and 1 Subsidiary).

1980:                           SISIBO SECONDARY SCHOOL, ELDORET KENYA, attained

Kenya Certificate of Education, (Ordinary Level).

1976-1979:                  ST. MARY’S HIGH SCHOOL, (Attained Kenya Junior Secondary

Examination Certificate, KSJE, 1977).

1971-1975:                  RACE COURSE PRIMARY SCHOOL, ELDORET, KENYA,

Attained Certificate of Primary Education.

1969-1971:                  KAPSOYA PRIMARY SCHOOL, ELDORET, KENYA

1968:                           ST. MATHEWS NURSERY SCHOOL, ELDORET, KENYA

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS

1. KIPO Certificate
2. Kenya Institute of Management Certificate
3. Law Society of Kenya – Certificate of Achievement (2005)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

SEPTEMBER 2005 TO PRESENT            CHAIRMAN – MADRID UNION OF THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO)

SEPTEMBER 2006 TO PRESENT            CHAIRMAN – BERNE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION

SEPTEMBER 2005 TO 1^ST DECEMBER

TO PRESENT:                                             VICE CHAIRMAN WIPO MEMBER OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND GOVERNING COUNCIL OF AFRICAN REGIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (ARIPO).

OCTOBER 2006                                           STANDING COMMITTEE ON TRADEMARKS, GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS

MARCH 2006                                                PRESIDENT – MAIN COMMITTEE II OF THE WIPO SINGAPORE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE ON THE LAW OF TRADEMARKS WHICH CONCLUDED THE SINGAPORE TREATY ON TRADEMARKS

1^ST DECEMBER 2004 TO PRESENT:      MANAGING DIRECTOR – KENYA INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY INSTITUTE (Gazette Notice No. 10317 of 24^th December 2004)

1^ST DECEMBER 2004 TO PRESENT:      REGISTRAR OF PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS

1^ST DECEMBER 2004 TO PRESENT:      REGISTRAR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS, UTILITY MODELS and TECHNOVATIONS

29^TH APRIL 2004 TO 10^TH

JANUARY 2005:                                          DEAN FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

APRIL 2004 TO 10^TH

JANUARY 2005:                                          MEMBER COUNCIL OF LEGAL

EDUCATION

MAY 2004 to JANUARY 2005:                  Member, the national Council for Law

Reporting; Responsible for production of the Kenya Law Reports.

7^TH APRIL 2004 to PRESENT:                  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC LAW, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI.

JULY 1989 to 6^TH APRIL 2004:                  SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW, FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (Subjects taught: Law Relating to banking, Transnational Business Problems, International Economic Law, Intellectual Property Law, Law of Treaties, Public International Law, Evidence legal Aspects of  Genetic Engineering, Land Law, Conveyancing and Environmental Law and Policy, Law of the Sea and Law Treaties).

JUNE 2002 TO JANUARY 2003:               EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PUBLIC LAW INSTITUTE

JANUARY 2003 TO NOVEMBER

2004:                                                               DIRECTOR CENTRE FOR GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY.

APRIL 2002 TO PRESENT:                       Consultant to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Policy Training Program.

AUGUST 1989 TO PRESENT:                  ADVOCATE, HIGH COURT OF KENYA

FEBRUARY 19^TH 1997 to

NOVEMBER 2002:                                      CHAIRMAN, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (Duties:  providing academic and administrative leadership in the department; being in charge of teaching allocation within the department and supervising and coordination of all academic activities of staff members attached to the Department, approving study leave and leave of absence, ensuring students are being taught, counseling students, in charge of the administrative assistants employed by the University and attached to the department, coordination association between the Faculty of Law and other Universities, assisting the Dean of the Faculty in the discharge of his duties and assisting the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nairobi in the discharge of his administrative duties as pertaining to the department).

APRIL 2002 to PRESENT:                         Trainer in the WTO trade Policy Training

Program – Nairobi.

JANUARY 1997 to 2001:                             Adjunct Lecturer, Kenya National Defence College, Karen, Nairobi.  (Subjects taught: military law, international law, relating to use of force in international relation, law of international organizations and the Kenyan legal system with species emphasis on the judiciary).  Teaching Sessions held in moth of each year only.

JANUARY 1997 to PRESENT:                  Legal consultant to Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

– Nairobi on the European Union and the African Caribbean Pacific Countries Relationship Consultancy held intermittently as and when legal issues arise.

JANUARY 1996 to PRESENT:                  Chief legal consultant and practitioner Otieno-Odek & Co. Advocates, Nairobi, Kenya.

FEBRUARY 1996 to 1999:                          Legal Advisor to TDP/GTZ on the Legal Aspects of Natural Resources Management.

FEBRUARY 1996 to 2000:                          Legal Advisor to TDP on Community Mobilization in Natural Resource Management.

JULY 1989 to PRESENT:                           SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW, FACULTY OF LAW, FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI (Subjects Taught: Law Relating to banking, Transnational Business Problems, International Trade Law and Finance, Intellectual Property Law, Law of Treaties, Public International Law, Evidence, Legal Aspects of Genetic Engineering, Land Law, Conveyancing and Environmental Law and Policy, Law of the Sea and Law of Treaties).Supervision of LL.B Undergraduate Dissertation and LL.M Postgraduate Master’s Thesis.

AUGUST 2002 to OCTOBER 2002:           MEMBER, GOVERNMENT OF

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LEGAL SECTOR REFORM PROGRAM.

MAY 1995 to DECEMBER 2000:              ADJUNCT LECTURER, KENYA

SCHOOL OF LAW (Subjects taught, Evidence, Conveyancing, Equity and Land Law).

APRIL 1995 to PRESENT:                         CONSULTANT and RESEARCH

FELLOW, AFRICAN CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (ACTS) NAIROBI.

JANUARY 1998 to PRESENT:                  ADJUNCT CONSULTANT AND

RESEARCH FELLOW – Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA).

FEBRUARY 1995 to AUGUST 1995:        LEGAL ASSISTANT, OSEKO & COMPANY ADVOCATES, NAIROBI.

JUNE 1988 – AUGUST 1991:                     LEGAL ASSISTANT, DINERS CLUB

AFIRCA LIMITED, NAIROBI.

SEPTEMBER 1988 –

SEPTEMBER 1991:                                     ADVOCATE IN THE FIRM OF R. A.

KASSAM & CO. ADVOCATES, NAIROBI.

MARCH 1983 – MAY 1984:                        ACTING HEADMASTER, SANIAK SECONDARY SCHOOL, KAPSABET, KENYA.

JANUARY & FEBRUARY 1983:               TUTOR, RED TOWERS SECONDARY

SCHOOL, ELDORET.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

MAY to AUGUST 1984:                              Attended Paramilitary training, national

Youth Service Gilgil, Kenya.

JULY 1987 to JULY 1988:                           Chambering at Kaplan & Stratton

Advocates, Nairobi (Under Edwin Alfred Bristow, Byron Nicholas Georgiadis and Sustwilla Amos Wako).

HONORARY POSITIONS

JANUARY 2002 to

DECEMBER 2002:                                      Ag. Executive Director – Public Institute.

JANUARY 2003 to PRESENT:                  Director, Centre for Governance and

Development.

UNIVERSITY MEMBERSHIP

28^TH APRIL 2004 to 10^TH

JANUARY 2005:                                          Member of Deans Committee University of

Nairobi.

28^TH APRIL 2004 to10TH

JANUARY 2005:                                          Member of University of Nairobi Central

Tender Committee.

OCTOBER 2004 to

JANUARY 2005:                                          Member of University of Nairobi College of

Humanities and Social Sciences Procurement Committee.

NOVEMBER and

DECEMBER 2004:                                      Chairman:  University of Nairobi Senate

Sub-Committee of the Discipline of Students.

FEBRUARY 1997 to

NOVEMBER 2002:                                      Member of the Senate, University of

Nairobi.

FEBRUARY 1997

to NOVEMBER 2002:                                  Member college of Humanities and Social

Sciences management Board, University of Nairobi.

MAY 1997 to AUGUST 2000:                     Chairman, Faculty of Law Affiliations

Committee.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

1985:               Awarded the Hamilton, Harrison & Mathews Award for the Best First Year Law Student, University of Nairobi.

1988:               Awarded the Yale Scholarship by Yale University.

1991-1993:      Awarded Connaught Scholarship by University of Toronto.

1994:               Awarded the Sir Val/Duncan Grant by Centre for International Studies,

University of Toronto.

2001:               Certificate of Achievement for a Course in Intellectual Property Rights

Granted by the Kenya Industrial Property Office (KIPO), the Registrar General and the Director Kenya Plant Health Services (KEPHIS).

2001:               Certificate on Presentation Skills by the Kenya Institute of Management.

PUBLICATIONS

1. “The Judiciary in Sensitive Areas of Public Law:  Emerging approaches to Human Rights Litigation in Kenya” (1988) 35 (1) Netherlands International Law Review at 29-52 (co-Author).

• “The Right to Silence in Criminal Proceedings in Kenya” (1986) 6 Nairobi Law Monthly at 12-28.

• “Change of Plea in Criminal Proceedings” (1989) 4 Nairobi Law Monthly at 4-17.

• “Lome IV: Dynamic or static Improvement on the Previous conventions?  The Sub-Saharan Africa Perspective” (1994) 27 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa at 164-198.

• “Bio-Piracy:  Creating proprietary Rights in Plant Genetic Resources” (1994) 2 Georgia Journal of Intellectual Property Law at 141 -181.

• “Sub-Sahara Africa and the Proposed GATT Trade Related Investment measures Regime (TRIMS) (1994) Lesotho Law Journal.

• Sub-Sahara Africa and the Proposed GATT Trade Related intellectual Property Rights Regime (TRIPS) (1994) Lesotho Law Journal.

• “The Kenya Patent Law:  Promoting Local Inventiveness of Protecting Foreign Patentees?” (1994) 38 Journal of African Law 79-103.

• “Public Domain in Patent ability after the Uruguay Round: Developing Country Perspective with specific Reference to Kenya” (1995) Tulane Journal of International and comparative Law.

1. “National Access Regimes: Capacity building and Policy Reforms” Co-Author with Dr. John Mugabe, Charles Victor Barber, Gudrun Henne et all (ed) s in Access to Genetic Resources: Strategies for sharing Benefits, ACTS Press, 1997 at pg. 95-114.

1. Opportunities of the Lome convention for the East African Economy; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, April 1998, Nairobi.

1. East African perspectives for a New Lome convention:  Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, November 1998, Nairobi.

1. The Kenya Seed and Plant Varieties Law, CEPLA Environmental Law Journal 2000.

1. Genetic Resources Policy Making in Kenya by Dr. Otieno-Odek with Dr. John Mugabe (ACTS, 1999).

1. Land Use Planning and Management (acts, 1999).

1. The Cotonou Treaty Establishing the EC-ACP partnership: Its Impact on the East African Economies, published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung July 2002.

1. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements:  Their Impact on Kenya, published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 2002.

1. The East African COMMUNITY Treaty: Its Impact on Kenya, published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 2002.

1. Environmental, human Rights & Other Trade treaties Relevant to Kenya published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, January 2002.

• Impact of EU-CAP Reforms in East Africa (ed. By Dr. Otieno-Odek) Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, January 2003.

• Institutional Framework for an East African Federation: (Executive, Judiciary, Legislature) Published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung July 2000.

•   The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture and its Impact on Eastern Africa published by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 1999.

• Towards TRIPS Compliance:  Kenya’s legislative Reforms, in Trading in knowledge –Development perspectives on TRIPS, Trade and Sustainability in Christopher Bellmann, Graham Dutfield and Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz (eds) Earthscan Publications, London 2003 at pg. 227 et seq.

• The challenges and Way Forward for the sugar sub-Sector in Kenya by Dr. Otieno-Odek, Peter Kegode and Shem Ochola, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2003.

• East Africa’s Agricultural Interests: A Defensive and Offensive Strategy with regard to EU CAP Reform, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2003.

• “Normative Framework for Patent and Plant Breeders’ protection:  trade Theory and Development Policy” article to be published in the University of Nairobi Law Journal 2004.

• Intellectual Property and Public Health: TRIPS Flexibilities and Access to Medicine in Kenya, Kenya Industrial Property Institute 2005.

• Intellectual Property: Protection of Geographical Indications (GI) in Kenya and the TRIPS Agreement, Kenya Industrial Property Institute 2005.

• Intellectual Property: Analysis of the UPOV Convention on Protection of New Plant Varieties, Kenya Industrial property Institute 2006.

• Patents and Incentives:  Trade Theory and Development Policy, Kenya Industrial Property Institute 2006.

• The Lome Conventions (19750200): Background to the Relationship between Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Countries and the European Economic communities, 2005.

• Cultural Rights and Intellectual property as Human Rights and Tools for Development, Kenya Industrial Property Institute 2005.

• Kenya’s Trade with the European Union:  Analytical Study on rules of Origin, Kenya Industrial Property Institute 2005.

• East African Community: Fast Tracking Initiative for the Creation of the Federation of East Africa, 2005.

• Intellectual Property: Fundamentals of the TRIPS Agreement and the 2005 Amendment, Kenya Industrial property Institute 2006.

• Intellectual Property: Protecting Life Sciences and Biotechnology in Kenya; Kenya Industrial Property Institute, 2007.

• Intellectual Property: Journey towards Recognition and Protection of Plants, Animals and Traditional knowledge; Kenya Industrial property Institute, 2007.

FORTH COMING PUBLICATIONS

1. “Re-appraising the Framework for Regional Economic Integration in Africa” article to be published in the revived East African Law Journal 2004.

• “Conflict prevention, Mid Term Reviews and the Role of Non State Actors in the Cotonou Process” paper to be published in the SaferWorld and the Africa Peace Forum publication series 2004.

REPORTS and PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES

1. Proceedings of the Seminar on Relations between the European Union and Africa, European Union, Nairobi May, 1996.

• Position paper: Europe and sub-Sahara African Beyond Lome IV: European Centre for Development of Policy management, Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 1996.

• Forest Resources in Transmara:  Conservation, Management and Legal Issues, GTZ/TDP Project, August 1996.

• Legal Issues on Ownership of Forest and Wildlife Resources in Transmara District, January 1997, Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung.

• Global issues and Perspectives on the future of Development cooperation between the European Union and the ACP Countries Beyond the Lome IV Convention: Kenya – European Union Future Relations after the expiry of the Present Lome Convention in the year 2000, February 1997.

• OAU/STRC/KIPO/DEPA Report on the Proceedings of International workshop on ownership, access to and utilization of medicinal, aromatic and food plants, (Nairobi, April 14-16^th 1997).

• International Developments towards the protection of Traditional knowledge, Paper presented at the World intellectual Property organization and UNESCO Conference on African Regional Consultation on the protection of Expressions of Folklore, Pretoria, South Africa 23-24^th March 1999.

• The USA African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): Its Implications to Developing Countries with Specific Reference to Kenya’s textile Sector.

• Managing in a Multilateral trading System: Challenges and Opportunities paper presented at the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya 4^th annual Seminar held at Mombasa Continental Resort, 17-18^th August 2000.

1. The Trips Agreement: It’s Nature and Implications, paper Presented at the KIPRA Workshop, Nairobi Safari Park hotel, September 2000.

1. An Overview of the ACP-EC Relationship: Strengths and Challenges: Paper Presented at the East African Sub-Regional Workshop on post Lome IV Convention held at Nairobi on 1^st to 3^rd October 2000.

1. Report and Proceedings of the Workshop on the Role of Social Partners in the Promotion of the East African Community Activities, Arusha 13-14^th November 2000.

1. An Overview of the Cotonou Agreement – Opportunities and Constraints for East Africa: Paper presented at the Forest Action network Workshop on Post Lome held at Nairobi on 21^st -22^nd February 2001.

1. Proposals on the Criteria and procedure for Election of Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, Paper presented at the East African Law Society Workshop held at Nairobi Mayfair Holiday Inn Hotel, 5^th April 2001.

1. Towards TRIPS on the Criteria and Procedure for Election of members of the East African legislative Assembly, Paper Presented at the Eastern and Southern Africa Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on trade, intellectual Property Rights and Biological Resources in Eastern Africa, Nairobi July 30-31, 2001.

1. Intellectual Property protection and biotechnology in Eastern Africa, paper written in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Kameri-Mbote (2000).

1. Mid Terms Reviews:  The Role of the Civil Society and an opportunity to promote conflict prevention paper presented at Beach Hotel Mombasa on 28^th to 30^th March 2004.

1. Regional Economic Blocks as tools of Economic Development, paper presented at Zanzibar Beach Resort, Zanzibar, Tanzania on 21^st to 23 July 2004.

1. Managing in a Multilateral Trading System Challenges and Opportunities, paper presented at ICPSK 8^th Annual Seminar at Sun N’ Sand Beach Resort Mombasa on 11^th to 13thAugust 2004.

• Trade Facilitation in National and Regional Programs – case for Kenya paper presented at ILEAP Post July 2004 African Strategies for Bilateral and Multilateral trade Negotiations at Nairobi on October 2004.

• Keplotrade Provincial Road show Workshop on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) paper presented in Nyeri at Green Hills Hotel on 4^th October 2004.

• Basic Introduction to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and EU-ACP EPA negotiations with specific focus on the Iron and Steel Sector paper presented to the management team of Mabati Rolling Mills Limited on 11^th December 2004.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

1. European Commission “Partnership 2000 – The European community and the African Caribbean Pacific Countries after Lome IV”: Workshop held at D’Ivoire Hotel Intercontinental, Abidjan, Corte D’Ivoire on 28^th to 30^th April 1996.

• Consortium for African Scholarly Publishing (CASP) National Workshop on Capacity Development and Increasing Production of Scholarly Publications” held on 10^th May 1996 at Mount Kenya Safari Club, Nairobi.

• European commission “European Day” meeting held on 8^th May 1996 at Serena Hotel, Nairobi.

• Delegation of the European Union, Nairobi – Kenya, in conjunction with the European Commission: Seminar on “Relations Between the European Union and Africa held on 21^st May 1996 at the National Museums of Kenya.

• European Centre for Development of Policy Management Conference on “The Future of EU-ACP Relations Beyond Lome IV” held at Maastricht, The Netherlands on 10^th to 14^th June 1996.   

• Transmara Development Programme Seminar on “Natural Resource Management and Legal Options in Transmara District” held on 21^st and 22^nd June 1996 at Kericho Tea Hotel, Kericho, Kenya.

• Transmara Development Programme chief Seminar on “Natural Resource Management, Land Adjudication and Land tenure System in Transmara District” held in Lolgorien at TDP Offices on 14^th and 15^th august 1996.

• Transmara Development Programme Divisional Seminar on “Natural Resource management Options in Transmara District25th – 29^th November 1996.

• African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS): Biodiversity Conservation: Sustainable Use and Benefit Sharing – International Treaty Interpretation Seminar on 14^th January 1997.

1. African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS): Biodiversity Conservation: Sustainable Use and benefit Sharing – Conflict Resolution in forest Management – 16^th January 1997.

1. Konard Adenauer Stiftung and Transmara Development Program Seminar on natural Resource Management in Forest specific Areas, March 9thto April 6^th 1997.

1. Regional Workshop on Benefit Sharing and the Convention on Biological Diversity, March 26^th, 1997, Nairobi Safari Club: African Centre for Technology Studies in conjunction with the Ford Foundation.

1. OAU/STRC International workshop  on Ownership, Access to and Utilization of Medicinal, Aromatic and Food Plants (Nairobi April 14^th – 16^th 1997) Workshop organized by the OAU/STRC in conjunction with KIPO/DEPA.

1. COMESA and Kenyan Ministry of Planning and National Development Workshop on the future of EU-ACP Relationship, Nairobi, July 1997.

1. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Ministry of Planning and National Development, 2^nd national Workshop on the future of EU-ACP Relationship, Sports view Hotel, Karasani, and November 1997.

1. CEPLA/ICDA/FIELD Workshop on the Relationship Between Trade and Environment, January 19^th – 23^rd 1998, KCCT, Mbagathi, Nairobi.

1. World Wide for Nature (WWF) “National Workshop on Access to Genetic Resources and benefit sharing in Kenya “February 19-20 1998, Nairobi, Mount Kenya Safari Club.

1. ECO NEWS AFRICA – Seminar on the Proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment, Nairobi Hilton Hotel, 25^th March 1998.

1. The African Approach to EU-ACP Cooperation Paper presented at Panafric Hotel, Nairobi 23^rd to 24^th June 1998.

• ACTS Conference on TRIPS, Nairobi, Mount Kenya Safari club, October 28^th 1998.

• International Workshop on Agricultural Policy of African countries and Multilateral trade Negotiations – Challenges and Options: Organized by DSE, IFRI, CTA, Ministry of Lands of Zimbabwe, November 23-26, 1998, Harare, Zimbabwe.

• School of Field Studies, Centre for Wildlife Management Studies, 16 Broadway, Massachusetts and Athi River Campus, Kenya Lecture on Land Tenure and Wild Conflict Management in Kenya, October 1998.

• WIPO/UNESCO Conference on African Regional Consultation on the protection of Expressions of folklore, Pretoria, South Africa 23^rd-25^th March, 1999.

• The East African Forum: Political Aspects of Integration, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania October 11-12, 1999 at New Africa Hotel.

• The Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya 4^th Annual Seminar on the Multilateral trading System held in Mombasa continental Resort, 17-18^th August 2000.

• The KIPRA Workshop on the WTO Agreements held at Nairobi Safari Park Hotel, September 2000.

• The East African trade Union Congress (EATUC) Workshop at Arusha on the East African community Activities, New Arusha Hotel, 13^th-14th November 2000.

• Forest Action Network Workshop on Post Lome Convention, Nairobi 21^st -22^nd February 2001 at Fairview Hotel, Nairobi.

• East African Law Society Workshop on Criteria and procedure for Election of members of the East African Legislative Assembly held at Nairobi Mayfair Holiday Inn Hotel, 5^th April 2001.

• Workshop on the Eastern and Southern Africa Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on trade, intellectual property Rights and Biological Resources organized by The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the African Centre for technology studies (ACTS) in collaboration with Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), Nairobi, Kenya 30-31 July 2001.

• Workshop on the “Impact of International Treaties on the Kenyan Economy” Organized  by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Nairobi Landmark Hotel, 23^rd-24^th August 2001.

• Workshop on Exploring the contents and Impact of the EU-ACP Cotonou agreement, Mawingo Room, Mr. Kenya Safari Club, 26^th October 2001.

• Planning workshop on Regional Activities for the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Nairobi holiday Inn Hotel 14^th February 2002.

• Training Instructor for the World Trade  Organization and University of Nairobi Training Session for English Speaking African Countries on the WTO Legal Texts held at Nairobi July 13^th to October 5^th 2002.

• The Role of the East African Legislative Assembly in global Negotiations of the World Trade Organization and the EU-ACP Contonou Agreement, Impala Hotel-Arusha 19^th to 21^st February 2003.

• The World Trade Organization, 2^nd Trade Policy Training Session, Geneva-Switzerland, 17^th-21^st March 2003.

• Youth Agenda Workshop on Monitoring the Government’s Performance in the Context of the ACP-EU Contonou Agreement, Aberdare County club, 16-17 April 2003.

• Private Sector Forum, Workshop on global Trade Liberization: Implications for Kenya’s Manufacturing Sector-Grand Regency Hotel, Nairobi – April 23^rd 2003.

• Association of Professional Societies of East Africa (APSEA) Workshop on Integrating Services into the Multilateral Trade Organization, Nairobi – Mt. Kenya Safari Club, 8^th-9^th May 2003.

• COMESA/SADC Ministers for Trade and Industry Ministerial Workshop on WTO and the road to Cancum-Mexico, Organized by COMESA and the  Ministry of Trade of the republic of Kenya, Grand Regency Hotel, May 27^th 28^th 2003, Nairobi – Kenya.

• Workshop on WTO and its Implications for Kenya for Journalists and Media, ECONEW AFRICA and WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT (UK) at Lake Naivasha County Club, May 30^th-31^st, 203.

• Regional Training of consultants on EU-ACP Cotonou Partnership agreement at Adolph Kolping Centre Nairobi June 21^st to 24^th 2003.

• FES Workshop at Whitesand Hotel – Mombasa, Liaison and Awareness Creation on the Kenyan parliamentary Trade Committee on WTO  and Cotonou Partnership Agreements June 26^th to 28^th 2003.

• Ministry of Trade Workshop on WTO pre Cancun Briefing at Nyali Beach Hotel Mombasa July 4^th to 5^th 2003.

• FES WTO and Cotonou 2^nd Consultants Training Workshop at Bombers Beach Resort-Dar-es-Salaam August 2003.

• East African Parliamentary trade Liaison Committee Meeting at Jinja Nile Resort-Uganda on October 31^st to 2^nd November 2003.

• Pre-Conference Joint Parliamentary Assembly for the EU-ACP Countries held at Addis Ababa – Ethiopia, February 12^th to 14^th at UNCC – Economic Commission for Africa.

• European Union KEPLOTRADE programme for Kenya Negotiators training Session held at Machakos Garden Hotel from 23^rd February to 12^th March, 2004.

• WTO training session for3rd Nairobi Trade Policy Course at WTO Geneva Secretariat on March 24^th to 26^th, 2004.

• SAFERWORLD Regional Consultations on Mid term Review of the Country Strategy papers (CISPs) and the National Indicative Programmes (NIPs) within the context of the Cotonou Partnership agreement held at Mombasa from March 28^th to 30^th 2004.

• Training of journalists in Tanzania on EEU-CAP Cotonou Partnership agreement and EPA negotiations held at Beachcomber hotel Dar-se-Salaam on 7^th to 9^th April 2004.

• Kenya Association of Manufacturers Seminar on WTO Requirements May 5^th 2004 at Grand Regency Hotel – Nairobi.

• East African Business Council Workshop on EPA Negotiations held at Beachcomber Hotel Dar-es-Salaam May 10^th to 11^th 2004.

• Training of Journalists in Tanzania on WTO Agreements and Negotiations Process held at Beachcomber Hotel, Dar-es-Salaam on 12thto 14^th May 2004.

• UNCTAD-ICTSD Regional dialogue on intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Innovation and Sustainable Development in Eastern and Southern Africa held at Cape Town, south Africa from June 29^th to 1^st July 2004.

• Eastern and southern African Colloquium on International Terrorism held at Holiday Inn Kenya from July 4^th to 6^th 2004.

• Promoting trade in services in the EastAfrican Region and the European Union held at Zanzibar Beach Resort, Zanzibar Tanzania from July21st to 23^rd 2004.

• The East African Trade Negotiation Bill 2004 held at Naivasha SopaLodge Kenya from 22^nd to 24 August 2004.

GUEST LECTURES AND ADDRESSES

1. KEPLOTRADE Central provincial Workshop on Economic Partnership agreement and their and their Implications to the business community held at Green Hills Hotel Nyeri on 4^th October 2004.

• KEPLOTRADE Nyanza & Western Province Workshop on Economic Partnership agreement and their Complications to the business community held on 8^th to 9^th November 2004 at Kisumu and Kakamega.

• KEPLOTRADE Embu Workshop on Economic Partnership agreements and their complications to the Business Community held at Izaak Hotel Embu Kenya on 19^th November 2004.

• KEPLOTRADE Rift Valley province Provincial workshop on Economic partnership Agreements and their complications to Business Community held at Water Buck Nakuru Kenya on 29^th November 2004.

• Basic introduction to the world Trade Organization and EU-CAP negotiations Lecture given to senior management staff and Chief Executive officer of Mabati Rolling Mills Limited (MRM) at corporate Headquarters Athi River on 11^th December 2004.

TRAINING CONDUCTED

1. 1^st KEPLOTRADE Capacity Building and training of trade Negotiators on EPA Negotiations held at Garden Hotel Machakos 2003.

1. 2^nd KEPLOTRADE Capacity Building and Training of Trade Negotiators on EPA Negotiations held at Hotel Waterbuck Nakuru in 2004.

1. 2^nd KEPLOTRADE Capacity Building and training of trade Negotiators on EPA Negotiations held at Hotel Waterbuck Nakuru from 22^nd November 2004 to December 10^th 2004.

1. World Trade Organization 3^rd Nairobi Training Session held at Silver springs Hotel from 15^th April 2004 to July 2004.

1. Training Instructor for The World Trade Organization and University of Nairobi Training Session for English Speaking African Countries on the WTO Legal  Texts at Nairobi July 13^th to October 5^th 2002.

1. Training instructor The Role of the East African Legislative Assembly in Global Negotiations of the World Trade Organization and the EU-ACP Cotonou agreement, Impala Hotel-Arusha 19^th to 21^st February 2003.

1. Training instructor youth agenda workshop on Monitoring Government’s Performance in the Context of the ACP-EU Cotonou agreement, Aberdare County Club, 16-17 April 2003.

1. Training instructor workshop on WTO and its Implications for Kenya for Journalists and media, ECONEWS AFRICA and WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT (UK) at Lake Naivasha County Club, May 30^th-31^st, 2003.

1. Training instructor Regional Training of Consultants on EU-ACP Cotonou Partnership agreement at Adolph Kolping Centre Nairobi June 21^st to 24^th 2003.

1. Training instructor FES WTO and Cotonou 2^nd consultants Training Workshop at Bombers beach Resort-Dar-es-Salaam august 2003.

1. Training instructor East African Parliamentary  trade Liasion Committee meeting at Jinja Nile Resort-Uganda on October 31^st to 2^nd November 2003.

1. Training instructor European Union KEPLOTRADE programme for Kenya Negotiators Training Session held at Machakos Garden hotel from 23^rd February to 12^th March 2004.

1. Training instructor WTO training session for 3^rd Nairobi Trade Policy course at WTO Geneva Secretariat on March 24thto 26^th ,2004.

UNPUBLISHED WORKS

1. Review of the Kenya Government Land Act.

• The Four constitutional Organs in Kenya.

• LL.B Dissertation.

• LL.M Paper titled “The United Nations Budget Process”, Yale University 1989.

• SJD Dissertation.

• Inheritance and Damages under the Accidents Act and Law Reform Act.

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE DISSERTATION BEING SUPERVISED AT FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

1. Mohammed Nyaoga LLM G62/8283/2001.  Thesis Title: abuse of the Judicial Criminal Process in Kenya.

• Asher Oluoch LLM G62/7843/1998.  Thesis Title: The Relation between patent Protection and Competition in Kenya and the Impact of Trips Agreement

• Magani a. G. LLM G62/7816/1996.  Thesis Title :  Environmental Pollution in Thika town : An Assessment of the Enforcement Mechanisms on the Law Relating to Environmental Pollution Control.

• Karim Chakera LLM G62/7325/2001.  Thesis Title: Human Rights in Africa and the World trade Organization.

• Juster Nkoroi – LLM (2006) Thesis Title: compatibility of the East African Customs Union with GATT Article 24.

• Benson Ochieng – LLM (2006).

COURSES INTRODUCED AT FACULTY OF LAW – UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

1. Intellectual property (1995)

• International Economic Law (LLB 1999 and LLM 2000)

• East African community Law (LLM 2004)

• International Investments Law (LLM 2004)

• GATT/WTO Law LLM 2004

• Public Accounting and Procurement Law (LLM 2004)

CONSULTANCY WORK DONE FOR THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS

1. European Union- Brussels

• Delegation of Europe Union – Nairobi

• World trade Organization

• GTZ/TDP

• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Nairobi)

• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Car-es-Salaam)

• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Addis Ababa)

• action Aid

• Safer World

1. Africa Peace Forum

1. inter Africa group

1. East African Community

1. Heinrich Boll Foundation

1. Konrad Adeneur Foundation

1. Econews Africa

1. Forest Action Network

1. Kenya Parliamentary Trade Committee

1. Kenya Parliamentary agricultural Committee

1. Ministry of Trade – Kenya

• National Defence college

• National Committee on WTO (NCWTO)

• Kenya School of Law

• African Centre for Technology studies

• KEPLO TRADE

• African Women and child Features

• AERC – African Economic Research Consortium

• East African Legislative assembly

• ECDPM

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

• Africa intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)

• Office of the President – Performance Contract Steering Committee

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President Uhuru Kenyatta has and former prime minister Raila Odinga have led Kenyans in mourning Court of Appeal Judge Prof James Otieno Odek.

President Kenyatta in his message described Odek as a prolific intellectual and a gifted legal mind.

In his message of condolence to the family, relatives and friends of the late Justice Odek, President Kenyatta said he was shocked and deeply saddened by the death of the Appellate Judge.

The President said the death of Justice Odek is not only a big blow to his close family and the judiciary but also to the whole country which he served with commitment and dedication in the dispensation of justice without fear or favour.

“In this hour of sorrow and grief, I convey my deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to Prof Justice James Otieno Odek’s family, relatives and friends,” President Kenyatta said.

The President prayed to God to comfort and give fortitude to the family at this trying moment.

ODM party leader Raila Odinga on his part said Odek’s untimely death robs the Judiciary of a critical member at a very critical time for Kenya and the Justice system.

“My deep condolences to the family and friends of Court of Appeal Judge Prof Justice James Otieno Odek. His untimely death robs the Judiciary of a critical member at a very critical time for our country and the Justice system,” he posted.

Odek died on Monday morning at his home in Kisumu.

The family says the judge collapsed and died in the house. He was aged 56.

Judge Odek served as the Director of the Judiciary Training Institute from 2016 to 2018, having become a Judge of the Court of Appeal in 2012.

In 2011, he unsuccessfully applied for the position of Supreme Court judge.

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