Justice Emile Short was the first Commissioner at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in 1993 just when the country had transitioned into democratic rule. He received his Master’s Degree in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, after which he headed a law firm in Ghana. He has lectured at University of Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana and at Middlesex Polytechnic in London. In 2004 he was elected by the UN General Assembly to serve as an Ad Litem Judge for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda at Arusha in Tanzania. After 5 years he returned to his post at the CHRAJ until he retired in 2010. In February 2019, he led the Justice Emile Short Commission, which was tasked with unravelling the circumstances surrounding the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence which occurred in January 2019.