Lydia is a judge of the High Court in Uganda and currently a DPhil researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her research is on constitutional justiciability of maternal health rights under the supervision of Professor Sandra Fredman. Lydia holds an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria, South Africa; an LLM in International Law and Intellectual Property Rights Law from Lund University, Sweden; and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Makerere University, Uganda. Lydia’s twenty years of professional experience includes human rights, international law, comparative law, intellectual property rights, international trade systems, development, corporate finance, oil and gas, business and human rights, WTO/TRIPS dynamics, vaccines and waivers, and insolvency law and practice. She is a strong advocate of deliberative democratic theory.
