African Jurisprudence for Africa's Problems: Human Rights Norm Diffusion and Norm Generation Through Africa's Regional International Courts
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
ISSN
0272-5037
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Africa’s regional and sub-regional human rights courts—including the Economic Community of West African States Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court), the East African Community Court of Justice, and the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights—are worthy of increased attention from scholars of international law and relations. Groundbreaking decisions are emerging from these institutions, and arguably the decisions of African judges are generating new substantive human rights norms and enforcing heretofore unenforceable human rights. Africa’s regional and sub-regional human rights courts are also worthy of study as comparative cases, that is, worthy of study for the ways in which their design, function, and effectiveness can inform theories and models of human rights norm diffusion and compliance with international law, which are based in large part on study of western institutions.
Recommended Citation
Ayodeji K. Perrin,
African Jurisprudence for Africa's Problems: Human Rights Norm Diffusion and Norm Generation Through Africa's Regional International Courts
,
109
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting
32
(2015).
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