Dr. Gibson Kamau Kuria was born in Mahiga Location, Othaya Division, Nyeri District, the British colony and protectorate of Kenya, on 3rd March, 1947; this was an apartheid society; public policy was based on recognition of distinctions based on one's race.

Primary education:
· 1954-1961: Mahiga Intermediate School, period of Kenya's war of independence,
· 1963 when Kenya became independent and adopted a Constitution based on Anglo-American constitutional jurisprudence, Dr. Kuria was then in Form 2.

Secondary education
· 1962-1967: Kagumo High School,
· 1965, Dr. Kuria studied Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons which made him decide to become a lawyer; he greatly admired Sir Thomas More, the British Lord Chancellor who was beheaded in 16th Century because of his faith in law and God.

Higher education:
· July 1968: Dr. Kuria was admitted to the Faculty of Law, University of East Africa, University College, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania,
· March 1971 - Bachelor of Laws degree; Dr. Kuria graduated in March 1971; was at the top of class and awarded Bachelor of Laws degrees (Upper Division).

Dr. Kuria has had a career in law since 1971 when he graduated; he has served as a legal scholar, legal practitioner, human rights pro-democracy and constitutional reform activist, leader of the Kenya bar, and of the nascent East Africa federal bar.

July 1980 – Dr. Kuria was admitted as an advocate of the High.

The highlights in Dr. Kuria’s legal career, which include detention without trial (1987) and living in exile (July 1990-August 1992), are as follows:-
a. May 1971 – Dr Kuria was appointed a State Counsel in the Civil Division of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya,
b. May 1971 – Dr. Kuria was appointed a Tutorial Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi; he taught Law and carried out research between then and September 1972 when he went to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at the Oxford University; studied, among others subjects, Political Theory, Jurisprudence, Evidence and the Law of Restitution; awarded the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law in June 1975; published an article titled Customary Marriages in 1971 issue of the Eastern Africa Law Review,
c. 1974 - Appointed Lecturer, Faculty of Law, by the University of Nairobi; taught Law and researched between 1974 and February 26, 1987 when he was arrested and detained without trial until December 12, 1987; published articles on the rule of law, legal education, legal profession, human rights, and family law,
d. 1975 - Started legal activism with a few practicing lawyers in the Kenya bar; only one of them (Hon. Muite, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review) has remained a supporter of the original ideals; Hon. Amos Wako, the Attorney-General and two other attorneys, changed sides in the course of the struggle; activism then had three objectives, namely:
1. to restore constitutionalism which had been greatly weakened between 1966 and 1975 by unnecessary amendments to the Constitution and a political culture which was hostile to democracy; two members of Parliament were assassinated in 1965 and 1975 respectively;
2. to turn the Kenya's colonial or conservative bar which was dominated by Asian and European Kenyans who were the minorities in the society, into a bar in which all sections of the society were represented; as of then, African Kenyans who were the numerical majority in the society were the minority in the Kenya bar; during the war of independence, the Bar supported the colonial government;
3. to make bar active in the promotion of rule of law, constitutionalism, and human rights issues.

e. Since 1975, Dr. Kuria published many articles on constitutionalism, rule of law, human rights, legal education, family law, and succession in such scholarly journals as The East African Law Journal, Journal of African Law, Public Law, Yale Journal of International Law, Fletcher Forum of Public Affairs, Nairobi Law Journal, The Jurist, The Advocate, Nairobi Law Monthly, Kenyan journals as The Kenya Weekly Review, Society, Finance, Nairobi Times, such international newspapers as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Kenya's newspapers namely, The Daily Nation, The East African Standard, the People, and The Sunday Nation; most of these were antiques of constitutional order which emerged after the weakening of the constitutional values by amendments which were made between 1964 and 1988; Dr. Kuria has published articles on constitutional reform and rule of law in books on constitutionalism published in East Africa,
f. 1988 - awarded Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award; however, the Kenya government which had confiscated Dr. Kuria’s passport refused to allow him to travel to the US to receive the award; also received the Lawyers Committee for human Rights award; Hon. Paul Muite (now member of Parliament and Chairman of the Parliament Select Committee on Constitutional Reform), traveled to the USA and received the award on Dr. Kuria’s behalf and his passport was confiscated upon his return to Kenya,
g. August 1990 – Dr. Kuria was awarded the Rule of Law Award by the American Bar Association for my work in human rights in Kenya,
h. December 1990 - received Human Rights Watch's award as a human rights monitor,
i. May 1991 – Dr. Kuria was awarded the Doctorate of Laws by Lewis Clark Law School, Oregon, USA because of his human rights work; served as Commencement Speaker at the Law School's graduation,
j. 1993 – Dr. Kuria was awarded the Jurists of the Year Award by the International Commission of Jurists (Kenya Chapter),
k. July 1995 - elected Secretary General, East Africa Law Society; in this capacity, Dr. Kuria devised programs for promoting regional integration with a view to establishing an East African federal state to be served by a Federal bar Association; published two articles on how to establish an East African federal state and enforce a Bill of Rights; served until April 1998,
l. Between 1997 and 1998; Dr. Kuria served as the vice-Chairman of the Law Society of Kenya; this bar association has been in the forefront in the struggle to restore constitutionalism,
m. March 1999-2001 – Dr. Kuria Served as Chairman, Law Society of Kenya; in that capacity, Dr. Kuria promoted the rule of law, constitutionalism, and economic reforms, and human rights,
n. Between September 2001 and May 2002 – Dr. Kuria was involved in litigation aimed at removing gerrymandering from the country's electoral process (the Michuki case); the court ruled that the Constitution mandated the one-person - one-vote principle; between May and October 2002, jointly with the RFK Memorial Centre for Human Rights, Dr. Kuria worked on a project to persuade Kenyans to engage in the drawing of the electoral districts on the basis of one-person - one-vote principle; in late October, the Centre sent a delegation to Kenya in support of this project, promotion of constitutionalism, human rights, and the rule of law,
o. Since the formation of the new Government on December 30, 2002, Dr. Kuria has been actively involved in the press in the promotion of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and a competent and independent judiciary,
p. In February 17, 2003 – Dr. Kuria was appointed by President of the Republic of Kenya Senior Counsel, along with other 18 Kenyan lawyers; on February 22, 2003 he was appointed by the President a member of a tribunal to inquire into allegations of the Chief Justice's inability to discharge the functions of his office; the CJ resigned about a week after the setting up of the commission,
q. On March 28, 2003 – Dr. Kuria was appointed by the President to serve as assisting counsel in the commission to inquire into the Goldenberg scam