[7] She then joined Gayaza High School and later King's College Budo, before entering Makerere University to study law.
In 2009, in recognition of her body of work and contribution to international justice, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Edinburgh.
[18][19] When balloting resumed on 13 December 2011, Sebutinde received an absolute majority of votes in both the Security Council and the General Assembly, and thus was declared elected.
[21][22] Her dissenting opinion concluded that the dispute in question was essentially political rather than legal, and there was no plausible basis for finding genocidal intent on the part of Israel.
According to a Palestinian researcher at the Doha Institute, Majd Abuamer, "at least 32 percent of Sebutinde’s dissent was plagiarised".
The Romans did this as a punishment, to spite the 'Y’hudim' (Jewish population) and to obliterate the link between them and their province (known in Hebrew as Y’hudah).
[24][26] Other sources that Sebutinde allegedly plagiarized from include a PragerU video from conservative activist David Brog, the Wikipedia page on the Yom Kippur War, a written statement from the International Association of Jewish Lawyers, a statement from Fiji's submission to the ICJ, and a 2016 paper by Abraham Bell and Eugene Kontorovich.
Sebutinde credited Pastor Gary Skinner of the Pentecostal Watoto Church for having instilled and nurtured in her values of "integrity, honesty, Justice, mercy, empathy, and hard work".
[29][30][31][32] Arthur Fowler writes that the Watoto Church and Pastor Gary are associated with Christian Zionism,[33] and others have suggested Sebutinde's sympathy to Israel derives from her faith.