• Symbolic popular participation in constitution-making and constitutionalism in francophone Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga; Socher, Johannes (Edinburgh University Press, 2024-11)

  Increasingly, popular participation has come to be regarded globally as a best practice in constitution-making. This article examines the different forms of popular participation in the most recent constitution-making ...
• Clarifying jus cogens, erga omnes and the place of third-party countermeasures in international law 

  Mateus, Simon (University of South Africa, 2024-04)

  There is substantial support in literature of the idea that all norms of jus cogens are erga omnes, in that they produce obligations applicable towards all states. However, not all obligations erga omnes invariably flow ...
• Domestic and international law contradictions in Zimbabwe’s gender quota system 

  Lihiru, Victoria Melkisedeck (Pretoria University Law Press, 2024)

  In 2013 Zimbabwe adopted a gender quota system for the National Assembly. However, the quota system is set at 30 per cent, contrary to international law obligations domesticated under section 17 of the 2013 Zimbabwean ...
• The 30% gender quota law in Sierra Leone : a game changer for women's access to parliament? 

  Lihiru, Victoria Melkisedeck (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-07)

  The June 2023 elections in Sierra Leone occurred against the backdrop of amendments to the Public Elections Act (pea), the enactment of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act (gewe), and a switch from the First ...
• Assistance to constitutional courts in fragile contexts : the case of Mali, 2017–2022 

  Socher, Johannes (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2023)

  The year 2021 witnessed a global “coup pandemic”, with the highest number of successful overthrows of government in the past twenty years. Many of them – in Chad, Guinea, Mali, Sudan – occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...
• Fostering a constructive intra-African legal dialogue in post-colonial Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Cambridge University Press, 2022-02)

  The contention of this article is that there is a need to debunk the myth that the diversity of Africa's inherited legal systems means that the continent has little to contribute to the global legal dialogue. For Africa ...
• A global lethal force monitor : comparative opportunities and challenges 

  Rappert, Brian; Adang, Otto; De Paepe, Jasper; Dymond, Abi; Easton, Marleen; Probert, Thomas (Sage, 2023-02)

  Comparison across jurisdictions is one way of assessing the appropriateness of lethal force resulting from the actions of law enforcement agencies. This article sets out a vision for a global use of force monitor that can ...
• Democracy and fake news in Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Sweet and Maxwell, 2022-06)

  It had been assumed that the advances in digital information technology and its increasing availability to ordinary Africans would facilitate broader public participation in decision-making and provide ordinary citizens ...
• Ethiopia 

  Wakene, Dagnachew B.; Yoon, Priscilla; Mengistu, Tsion (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  No abstract available.
• To what extent is global and regional jurisprudence on the right to health for persons with disabilities reflected in Kenyan courts? 

  Juma, Paul Ochieng; Orao, Beryl (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  The integration of international jurisprudence into the interpretation of the right to health of persons with disabilities by domestic courts is an important way of enhancing protection of the right at the national level. ...
• Targeting of children in non-international armed conflicts 

  Birhane, Fikire Tinsae (Oxford University Press, 2021-03)

  Albeit the prohibition of recruitment and use in hostilities of children is an established norm of international law, recognized under both international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the problem ...
• Protecting the right to life during assemblies : legal and jurisprudential developments in the African human rights system 

  Orao, Beryl (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2021)

  The right of peaceful assembly has been recognised as a critical component of democracy. In Africa it played a significant role in the liberation of states from colonial oppression, and continues to be used to express ...
• Investigating the extraterritorial application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 

  Mateus, Simon (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  The territorial scope of the application of human rights treaties has been a core discussion when dealing with the enforcement of human rights obligations imposed by human rights treaties on State Parties. In particular, this ...
• An overview of the state of electoral democracy in Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)

  Most recent accounts paint a bleak and gloomy picture of the state of global democracy. This is particularly so in Africa where the optimism of a democratic revival in the 1990s is rapidly giving way to narratives of doom ...
• The status of nuclear deterrence under international law in light of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 

  Casey-Maslen, Stuart (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2020)

  Nuclear deterrence is not illegal under international law but is being delegitimised, in part as a result of the adoption of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Treaty prohibits not only ...
• Editorial introduction to special focus : assessing the implications of COVID-19 pandemic regulations for human rights and the rule of law in eastern and southern Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2020)

  No abstract available.
• Comparative overview of the constitutional framework for controlling the exercise of emergency powers in Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga; Abdulrauf, Lukman Adebisi (Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)

  The need to act swiftly in times of emergency gives governments a reason to exercise emergency powers. This is a legally valid and accepted practice in modern democracies. Post-independence African constitutions contained ...
• A comparative overview of recent trends in judicial appointments : selected cases from Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Routledge, 2021)

  One of Africa’s major challenges in the last three decades has been the need to restore confidence in the judiciary. During the long years of dictatorial rule, judges were stripped of their independence and appointed or ...
• Editorial introduction to special focus : the rule of law in sub-Saharan Africa : reflections on promises, progress, pitfalls and prospects 

  Fombad, Charles Manga; Kibet, Eric (Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)

  Serious efforts to entrench the rule of law in Africa came with the socalled third wave of democratisation in the 1990s. This democratic revival raised hopes of a new era of governance guided by the basic principles of ...
• An overview of the crisis of the rule of law in Africa 

  Fombad, Charles Manga (Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)

  After the wave of democratic and constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the rule of law appeared to have enjoyed a revival in Africa. Apparently there were strong constitutional commitments by African countries for ...

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