Africa : mapping new boundaries in international law
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Africa : mapping new boundaries in international law
（Studies in international law, v. 16）
Hart, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-333) and index
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The principal aim of this work is to provide a forum for leading international lawyers with experience and interest in Africa to address a broad range of intellectual challenges concerning the contribution of African states and peoples to international law. As such, the volume addresses orthodox topics of international law - such as jurisdiction and intervention - but tackles them from an African perspective, and seeks to ask whether, in each case, the African perspective is unique or affirms existing arrangements of international law. The book cannot come at a more important time. While international legal discourse has been captured by the challenge of terrorism since September 11, 2001, there are clear signs that other issues are returning to the fore. Political interest in Africa has undergone a global revival, and the OAU has been transformed into the African Union. Infrastructural challenges, along with those taking place in regional contexts, have effectively mapped a new politico-legal landscape for Africa. This, and more, is explored, and the key normative questions are addressed in a series of essays by leading Africanist scholars.
'This is a remarkable collection of essays that clearly and concisely demonstrates that Africa has and will continue to play a major role in fashioning new norms of international law and policy and contribute to its progressive development by affirming existing norms. Professor Levitt is to be commended for having the vision, leadership and intellectual prowess to produce this excellent text. The book signals a major shift from the study of Africa as a basket case to a normative market place.' Akua Kuenyehia, Vice President, International Criminal Court 'Professor Levitt's work, Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law, is pathbreaking in the true sense of that word. Through old and new voices, it excavates the singular contributions of Africa to a discipline that is marked by Eurocentrism and imperial aspirations. The authors, taking their cue from the indefatigable and insightful Professor Levitt, establish beyond a shadow of a doubt the enormity of the normative contributions that Africa has made to international law. The book must therefore be seen as a defining contribution to the multiculturalization of international law.
It is for this reason that Professor Levitt is among the most important American academics working and thinking in international law today.' Makau Mutua, Interim Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York Buffalo Law School
Table of Contents
PART I:HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2.WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND AFRICA'S EVOLVING LEGAL LANDSCAPE: PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law 3.SOVEREIGNTY AS RESPONSIBILITY: PROTECTING VULNBERABLE POPULATIONS DURING WAR Khassim Diagne, Senior Advisor, Office of the SRSG for the Great Lakes Region, United Nations Office in Nairobi 4.AFRICAN STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NORM OF DISPLACEMENT: STANDARDS VERSUS IMPLEMENTATION M. Francis Deng, Research Professor of International Law, Politics and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons 5.THE CAIRO-ARUSHA PRINCIPLES ON UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS OFFENSES: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE Evelyn A. Ankumah, Executive Director, Africa Legal Aide, (Ghana) 6.TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA: NEW MODELS, NEW APPROACHES Chaloka Beyani, Senior Lecturer in International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law PART II:COLLECTIVE SECUITY AND GOVERNANCE 7.SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN AFRICA Dino Kritsiotis, Reader in International Law, University of Nottingham School of Law 8.PRO-DEMOCRATIC INTERVENTION IN AFRICA Jeremy I. Levitt, Assistant Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law 9.AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: POST-CONFLICT MODELS OF MULTI-ETHNIC GOVERNANCE H. Kwasi Prempeh, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School PART III:INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW 10.REGIONAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE AU, EACS, ECOWAS, COMESA AND SADC: A STRUCTURAL APPROACH? Craig Jackson, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law 11.NEPAD AND THE REBIRTH OF DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRAXIS Maxwell Chibundu, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Law School PART IV:REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERAL GOVERNANCE 12.THE OAU/AFRICAN UNION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES OR REVISITING OLD TERRAIN? Tiyanjana Maluwa, H. Ladie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law 13.THE AFRICAN UNION AND THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) Vincent O. Nmehielle, Associate of Professor of Law, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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