He is the Dean, School of Law, Karamoja Peace and Technology University (KAPATU) Project.

Professor Emmanuel Kasimbazi is a distinguished legal scholar and Full Professor of Law with over 30 years of experience in teaching, research, and legal practice. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), an LL.M from the University of Calgary (Canada), an LL.B from the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre (Uganda). A practicing Advocate of the High Court of Uganda, Professor Kasimbazi has served as a senior lawyer, researcher, and consultant to numerous international, regional, and national institutions. His teaching and research focus on Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Criminal Law, and Criminology. He has supervised over 50 master’s and PhD students to completion and has published more than 30 scholarly works, including monographs, book chapters, journal articles, working papers, and policy reports.

He has been awarded several prestigious fellowships and visiting scholarships, including a British Academy Research Fellowship at the Walker Institute, University of Reading (UK), and a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (USA). He has also served as a guest research scholar at the University of Bergen (Norway), University of Warwick (UK), and the Centre for International Environmental Law, Washington, under the American Bar Association Fellowship Programme.

Professor Kasimbazi currently serves as the Environmental Law Expert for the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds and chairs the Specialist Group on Biodiversity Law under the World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) of the IUCN. He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences, and the World Academy of Sciences, where he also serves as a member of the Ethics Committee.