Saturday, August 31, 2024

Wiebusch: A Theory on Africanizing International Law

Micha Wiebusch
(African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights) has published A Theory on Africanizing International Law (Pretoria Univ. Law Press 2024). This book is available open access. Here's the abstract:
What is African about African international law? The main aim of this book is to answer this question by developing a theory to explain how and why international law is Africanized. This includes explaining how Africanization relates both to the extent of continental norm setting by the Organization of African Unity and later the African Union, as the principal agent responsible for ‘African solutions to African problems’, and to the degree to which this African International Organization enforces these norms through varied continental accountability mechanisms. In this specific context, the book considers the different modalities through which the idea of Africa shapes, is shaped by and is embedded in international law making and implementation.