Constitutions of African States
Author: Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee. Secretariat
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 992
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Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa
Author: Alan J. Kuperman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0812246586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting the first database of constitutional design in all African countries, and seven original case studies, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa explores the types of domestic political institutions that can buffer societies from destabilizing changes that otherwise increase the risk of violence.
Transnational Constitutionalism
Author: Nicholas Tsagourias
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-19
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 113946468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary perspective is adopted to examine international and European models of constitutionalism. In particular the book reflects critically on a number of constitutional themes, such as the nature of European and international constitutional models and their underlying principles; the telos behind international and European constitutionalism; the role of the state and of central courts; and the relationships between composite orders. Transnational Constitutionalism brings together a group of European and international law scholars, whose thought-provoking contributions provide the necessary intellectual insight that will assist the reader in understanding the political and legal phenomena that take place beyond the state. This edited collection represents an original and pioneering contribution to the international and European constitutional discourse.
Political and Constitutional Development of West African States
Author: Ibrahim Adebimpe
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 110
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Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-10-09
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 0812201108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa. In a series of detailed and highly contextual studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda, experts seek to balance the socioeconomic and political diversity of these nations while using the same theoretical framework of legal analysis for each case study. Standards for human rights protection can be realized only through direct and strong support from a nation's legal and political institutions. The contributors to this volume uniformly conclude that a well-informed and motivated citizenry is the most powerful force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national level. In addition to a critical evaluation of the current state of human rights protection in each of these African nations, the contributors outline existing national resources available for protecting human rights and provide recommendations for more effective and practical use of these resources.
Constitutions of the New African States
Author: Jamʻīyah al-Miṣrīyah lil-Qānūn al-Dawlī
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 118
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Author: Mark S. Kende
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0521879043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the South African Constitutional Court to determine how it has functioned during the nation's transition.
Constitutional Options for a Democratic South Africa
Author: Ziyad Motala
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780882581873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstitutional Options for a Democratic South Africa describes the unjust South African political and judicial apartheid system that exploited black South Africans. Ziyad Motala emphasizes the importance of a constitution and state system that would not only ameliorate the enormous inequalities generated by colonialism and apartheid but also ensure equal democratic rights and protection to all citizens in the post-apartheid South Africa. He carefully examines and compares the political outcomes of post-independent African states adopting (1) the Western liberal federal state, (2) the Soviet-inspired Marxist unitary state, or (3) the locally inspired one-party African socialist state. Motala weighs the relative merits of these state structures for dealing with the complex of democracy, socioeconomic development, and national unity in multiethnic states. He contends that the constitutions and state practices employed thus far by African states have not facilitated political and socioeconomic development, and recommends different constitutional and state options for South Africa.
A Theory of African Constitutionalism
Author: Berihun Adugna Gebeye
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0192646141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Theory of African Constitutionalism asks and seeks to answer why we need a new theoretical framework for African constitutionalism and how this could offer us better theoretical and practical tools with which to understand, improve, and assess African constitutionalism on its own terms. By locating constitutional studies in Africa within the experiences, interactions, and contestations of power and governance beginning in precolonial times, the book presents the development and transformation of African constitutional systems across time and place, along with the attendant constitutional designs and practices ranging from the nature and operation of the African state to its vertical and horizontal government structures, to its constitutional rights regime. This title offers both a theoretically and comparatively rich, historically and contextually informed, and temporally and spatially extensive account of the nature, travails, and incremental successes of African constitutionalism with detailed case studies from Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa. A Theory of African Constitutionalism provides scholars, policymakers, governments, and constitution builders in Africa and beyond with new insights for reimagining the purpose, substance, and scope of constitutions and constitutionalism.
Constitutional Options for a Democratic South Africa
Author: Ziyad Motala
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe contends that the constitutions and state practices employed thus far by African states have not facilitated political and socioeconomic development, and recommends different constitutional and state options for South Africa.
