57th LLB Class represented #MakRun2025 Makerere Law School edgartalentkirindiro “Long distance running is 90% mental and the rest is in your head.” 🏃🏾‍♂️ — Ray Zahab

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Judiciary Uganda Constitutional Court rejects idea of ‘no fault’ divorce 👇 Justice Egonda-Ntende with an excellent dissent (on core issue). An interesting decision overall - albeit one I disagree with, as I will elaborate in this week’s The Observer

My column in this week’s The Observer I identify the emergence of a new ‘ghost’ on Uganda’s legal landscape (represented by the Judiciary Uganda Con Court decn on no-fault divorce) and describe one of its faces: undue deference to majoritarian impulses. observer.ug/viewpoint/expu…

Join us for the launch of "What Died When We Lived" by Jim Spire Ssentongo, an incisive reflection on governance, society & democracy. The event will feature a keynote address by Winnie Byanyima and reflections by notable discussants. The launch will be streamed live on our YouTube.

#SavetheDate Dr Spire Ssentongo will launch his book "What died When We Lived" on 27.August.2025 Makerere Law School The keynote speaker is Dr Winnie Byanyima and the discussant Dr Zac Niringiye.

This weekend, the 57th Class of Makerere Law School was represented by a team that exhibited intellectual intelligence as they participated in the Makerere University Fresher’s Debate tournament. They managed to emerge victors 🤝🏽🥇 Congratulations! Many more to come

And our good Dr Dr Busingye Kabumba is going to teach the doctrine of separation of powers in his constitutional law class. Courseworks keep writing themselves.

A Circle of Doctorates! L-R: Dr Spire Ssentongo, Dr Yusuf Serunkuma, Dr Zac Niringiye and Dr Busingye Kabumba.

Paraphrasing Archbishop Desmond Tutu's celebrated quote on neutrality, Jim Spire Ssentongo contends that "we have an obligation to forthrightly put forward our contentions against repression...you cannot be neutral in situations of outright injustices."

A powerful Dr Busingye Kabumba commentary about some judges’s unfortunate tendency to ignore or run away from the Kabaziguruka Supreme Court’s decision that nullified and declared trials of civilians in military tribunals unconstitutional.

Kabaka Muteesa II on the Makerere College (before it became Makerere University) football lineup in 1944. Source: Kabaka Muteesa II Museum, Makerere University

📢📢: Call for Articles for the 91st Guild Magazine. Are you a fresher, continuing student, or an alumnus? Do you have a story, experience, or idea every Makererean should read? Share your story with the editorial board via [email protected] before September 30th, 2025.

Happy birthday to Mr Bakayana! The law says something about using people’s pictures so this message will do. “Equity aids the vigilant”

#RNBLive36: [to Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka] "Back in the days according to Sam Kalega Njuba, the Attorney general worked tirelessly to protect both citizens and politicians. Today, our President Law Society Isaac Ssemakadde is a fugitive - he's in exile. You saw him