Hon Justice Prof Joel Ngugi (a Kenyan Court of appeal judge) and Justice Dorothy DeGabriele (a Malawian High Court judge) will be participating in a roundtable discussion on "Judging and Constitutionalism in contemporary Africa" at Warwick. The event will be held in S2.12 (Social Sciences Building) at 4.15pm and will be followed by a drinks reception. The event is hosted by the African Judiciaries Research Network, Comparative Politics Cluster, Centre for Studies in Democratization, and Warwick Law School.

Justice Prof. Joel Ngugi is a Judge of Appeal in Kenya. He also presently serves as the Chair of the National Steering Committee for the Implementation of the Alternative Justice Systems Policy. Justice (Prof.) Ngugi is a former High Court Judge and Head of Judiciary Transformation Secretariat and former Director of the Kenya Judiciary Academy (KJA). As a judge, he has won a number of prestigious awards including the Jurist of the Year Award (JOYA) in 2022, National Integrity Award (by Transparency International) in 2023 and Legal Tech Judge of the Year in 2021 and 2022. He is presently serving as the Leverhulme Distinguished Visiting Professor in residence at Cardiff University in the Wales, UK.

Lady Justice Dorothy A DeGabriele is a Judge of the High Court in Malawi and Advisor on the SADC Electoral Advisory Council. She has been a judicial officer since 2000 and has served as a Chairperson for the Industrial Relations Court, Chairperson for the Prison Service Commission, National Coordinator for the National Juvenile Justice Forum which spearheaded alternative punishment for children in conflict with the law, an Advisor of the Paralegal Advisory Service and as a member of the Judicial Service Commission. She also worked as a Justice Advisor, and later Governance Advisor for the Safety, Security and Access to Justice programme, under the then Department for International Development (DfID) She has previously researched the areas of children in conflict with the law, HIV/AIDS in Malawi Prisons, and Primary Justice which provides an interface between formal and informal justice systems. Her areas of research interest include criminal law, child justice, electoral justice, human rights, courts and politics, labour law, constitutional law and law and development. Lady Justice DeGabriele holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Malawi) and an LLM from the University of London. She is currently a PhD scholar at the University of Warwick.