Browsing Book and Book Chapters (Faculty of Law) by Issue Date
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The idea of a new Zimbabwe post- Mugabe
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Zimbabwe has gone through deep political, economic and social challenges for close to three decades. Once known as the shining light of Africa, Zimbabwe is now often known for dominating international headlines for the ... -
The effects of reporting on the realisation of children’s rights in Central Africa
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)State reporting is an integral part of the obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfil children’s rights as set out in global and African human rights instruments, that is, the United Nations Convention on the ... -
Aspects of Dutch colonial family law related to the Indonesian rajah of Tambora’s exile at the cape
(Intersentia, 2020)The Muslims who arrived at the Cape during the first period of Dutch colonisation in the seventeenth century hailed from different geographical locations, were of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and, more ... -
Constitutionalism and electoral authoritarianism in Ethiopia: From EPRDF to EPP
(Oxford University, 2020)Ethiopia has had little experience of democratic political systems. For centuries it was a monarchy, ruled by successive emperors who traced their political authority to divine sources as opposed to the people.1 Although ... -
Formal recognition of adult relationships and legal gender in a comparative perspective
(Elgar Publishing, 2020-03-02)This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents ... -
Negotiating settlements in a broader law enforcement context
(Elgar Publishing, 2020-04-08)This thought-provoking book examines the scope, benefits and challenges of negotiated settlements as an enforcement mechanism in bribery cases, and demonstrates the need for a more harmonized and principled approach to ... -
Access to Justice in Kenya in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 16.3 on the Rule of Law: Lessons for the upcoming 2020 Voluntary National Review Report
(CEDRED Publications, 2020-08)Kenya was among the various countries that presented a Voluntary National Review Report in 2017. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goal 16.3, a close reading of the 2017 Report shows some strong and weak points. ... -
Mainstreaming the ‘Abortion question’ into the right to health in Uganda
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2021)The right to health is a social and economic right that requires progressive realisation by states (Chenwi 2013). Although Uganda’s Constitution does not provide for the right to health, the country is a signatory to the ... -
Food security, urban governance and multilevel government in Africa
(Springer, 2021)Realising the right to food requires more than an increase in food production. Increasing access to food is equally important, so this contribution adopts a “food systems approach”. Against the backdrop of a growing ... -
Real or imagined local autonomy: Experiences from local government in Ethiopia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Koninklijke Brill NV, 2021)Centralized rule has been common in Africa, and almost all African countries implemented, constitutionally or otherwise, programs of centralization from the time they achieved independence from colonial rule. They did ... -
Ethiopia: Legal response to Covid-19
(Oxford University Press, 2021)The Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE),1 which was promulgated in 1995, is the supreme law of the country which, among other things, defines the Ethiopian state and government structures.2 ... -
Multiparty democracy in Zimbabwe after the adoption of the 2013 constitution
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Zimbabwe adopted a new Constitution in 2013 which, among other objectives, sought to give greater legitimacy to multiparty democracy. This Constitution strengthens the role of an independent electoral commission, entrenches ... -
In the name of diversity: The disenfranchisement of citizens in an African Federation
(Brill, 2021)The empowerment of ethnic communities is the cornerstone of the constitutional arrangement of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The Constitution organises the state along ethnic lines by using ethnicity as ... -
Lessons from litigating for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis group, 2021)This chapter focuses on lessons learnt from the experiences of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) in instituting and supporting strategic litigation on sexual and reproductive health rights in Southern Africa. ... -
Barriers to access to contraceptives for adolescent girls in rural Zimbabwe as a human rights challenge
(Routledge, 2021)Approximately 214 million women in developing countries between ages 15 and 49 have an unmet need for contraception.1 In Zimbabwe, 12% of unmarried adolescent girls have an unmet need for contraception. Contraceptive use ... -
The law and politics of internal secession: The Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021)Although secession has been the subject of much scholarly work, the focus has largely been on the external dimension of secession, the decision of a territory to leave an existing state and establish itself as independent ... -
The rule of law and compliance: Legal quadrant and conceptual clustering
(Springer, Cham, 2021)We present in this paper: (i) a regulatory quadrant to describe the rule of law; (ii) a cluster of concepts to describe instruments and processes of the law; (iii) the methodology followed to select the technical papers ... -
Kenya Kenyan Kadhis’ courts and their application of the Islamic law of divorce and distribution of property at the dissolution of marriage
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)Kenya does not have a State religion. Muslims are estimated to constitute than 10% of the Kenyan population. The ‘Kenyan Islamic practice … is predominantly Sunni with a Shafi intellectual tradition.’ However, there are ... -
Subnational constitutionalism in Ethiopia : Constitutional déjà vu
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter provides a concise account of the nature, scope and relevance of state constitutions in Ethiopia. The major armed forces that challenged state policy were the Eritrean liberation fronts that launched armed ... -
Thirty years of the CRC in Africa
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter reviews 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa. It notes that there has been significant upgrading and modernisation of child law throughout the continent, notably in child protection ...