Yash Pal Ghai CBE (born 20 October 1938) is a Kenyan academic in constitutional law.
Yash Pal Ghai is a writer and a poet .His known texts majoring in constitutional law discourse in Africa His grandparents were from the Khukhrain family-group of Khatris, who came from the Punjab region of North India, and were part of the waves of Indian migration in East Africa, sponsored by the British Empire.
[1] He was the Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong starting in 1989.
He has also taught courses at the University of Wisconsin Law School, as part of an exchange program.
Professor Ghai is also recently selected by the Fijian Military Government to be the Chairperson of Fiji's Constitutional Committee.