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6 Strathmore L.J. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/strathlj6 and id is 1 raw text is: Judicial Landmarks in Modern Governance: The Contemporary Constitution in a Common Law Medium Jackton B. Ojwang'* and Loise Wangeci** Abstract: Governance institutions evolve within historically-marked frontiers', but the judicial sector more so, in view of its sharper normative design. The motions of courts are shown to rest upon legal principles and patterns that draw cast and moulding from inputs of scholars and jurists nurtured in the common law tradition, and their heritage has constantly attended upon the conception and formulation of the modern codified Constitution, which constantly draws upon the same for its effectuation. The Constitution, therefore, rests upon the people's sovereign mandate, and the direct legislative signals, just as it remains predicated upon regular interpretation and re-definition by the values of the judicial order, largely evolved under the common law tradition - and thus, dependent upon the inspirational works of ages, of distinguished jurists in that tradition. Keywords: Constitutional Law, Common Law, Judiciary, Constitutional Interpretation, Legal Doctrine * LL.B., LL.M., LL.D. at University of Nairobi; Ph.D. at University of Cambridge; Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear; Fellow of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences; Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya. ** LL.B., B.A. at University of Nairobi; LL.M. at Australian National University; Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Kenya. STRATHMORE LAW JOURNAL, VOL. 6, ISSUE 1, 20221 PP. 1-45 DOI: 10.52907/slj.v6i1.160