Young scholars and PhD candidates interested in empirical methods in international law are invited to submit expressions of interest for this workshop on the use of "authorities" in international dispute settlement. The workshop will not involve the publication of papers, although works-in-progress will be discussed by the participants. By bringing together young and established scholars using empirical methods, this workshop aspires to provide inspiration and practical guidance.
The workshop, funded by the British Academy, is organised by Dr Michael Waibel and will take place on 20 March 2017, at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Expressions of interest shall be sent to Damien Charlotin (dc655@cam.ac.uk) by 10 January 2017 with a description of your research interests and how they relate to the theme of the workshop, plus a CV with a list of publications. The organizer will let applicants know by 20 January 2017 about the outcome of their application.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Call for Papers: "Authority" in International Dispute Settlement
New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy
- Articles
- Robert Beckman, ‘Deliberate Ambiguity’ and the Demise of China’s Claim to Historic Rights in the South China Sea
- Tran Thang Long, Impacts of the Award of the Arbitral Tribunal in the Case between the Philippines and China
- Anh Duc Ton, Innocent Passage of Warships: International Law and the Practice of East Asian Littoral States
- State Law of the Sea Practice in Asian Pacific States
- Seokwoo Lee, Hee Eun Lee, Hyo Jin Lee, & Kyu Rang Kim, The Gap between Korean Law and the People’s Perception of the Abandonment of Duties
- Jun Zhao, China’s Initiative to Revive the Maritime Silk Road for Trade and Development
- Chen-Ju Chen, State Practice of Taiwan Regarding Underwater Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Tran H.D. Minh, Recent Practice on Enforcement of Vietnam’s Customs Law in Its EEZ
- Anastasia Telesetsky, United States Humpback Whale Conservation Management
- Current Legal Developments
- Clive R. Symmons, First Reactions to the Philippines v China Arbitration Award Concerning the Supposed Historic Claims of China in the South China Sea
- Keyuan Zou, Historic Rights in the South China Sea Arbitration Case
- Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, Arbitral Tribunal Constituted under Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Permanent Court of Arbitration Case No. 2015–28, The Italian Republic v. The Republic of India Concerning the “Enrica Lexie” Incident, Provisional Measures, Order of 29 April 2016
- Zhen Sun, Tenth Anniversary of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia
- Leonardo Bernard, The Impact of ICJ’s Preliminary Decision on the Nicaragua v Colombia Case to the Asia Pacific Region
New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
New Issue: Human Rights & International Legal Discourse
- J. Wouters, Introduction: Universality and Regional Diversity in the Human Rights Arena
- A. Förster, The Concept of Human Rights – Dissolving the Universality- Plurality Puzzle
- C.B. Pavese, Converging Perspectives, Cross-cutting Approaches: Assessing Voting Cohesion in UNHRC Regional Groups
- A-L- Chané & A. Sharma, Universal Human Rights? Exploring Contestation and Consensus in the UN Human Rights Council
- T.J. Gunn & A. Lagresa, The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Universal Human Rights, Islamic Values, or Raisons d’état?
Bell: Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire
Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought—Duncan Bell sheds new light on some of the most important themes in modern imperial ideology.
The book ranges widely across Victorian intellectual life and beyond. The opening essays explore the nature of liberalism, varieties of imperial ideology, the uses and abuses of ancient history, the imaginative functions of the monarchy, and fantasies of Anglo-Saxon global domination. They are followed by illuminating studies of prominent thinkers, including J. A. Hobson, L. T. Hobhouse, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Herbert Spencer, and J. R. Seeley. While insisting that liberal attitudes to empire were multiple and varied, Bell emphasizes the liberal fascination with settler colonialism. It was in the settler empire that many liberal imperialists found the place of their political dreams.
Lecture: Orford on "Applying Critical Thinking to Human Rights"
Baumgartner: Treaty Shopping in International Investment Law
Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the aim of accessing another (usually more favourable) investment treaty for purposes of investment arbitration. When deciding on whether an investment claim based on treaty shopping should be upheld or dismissed, investment arbitral tribunals have been increasingly faced with significant questions, such as: What is treaty shopping and how may legitimate nationality planning be distinguished from treaty abuse in international investment law? Should a claimant that is controlled by a host-State national be considered a protected investor, or should tribunals pierce its corporate veil? Does an investor have to make the investment in good faith, and does it have to make a contribution of its own to the investment it is claiming protection for? When does a corporate restructuring constitute an abuse of process, and which is the role of the notion of dispute in this respect? How efficient are denial of benefits clauses to counter treaty shopping?
Treaty Shopping in International Investment Law examines in a systematic manner the practice of treaty shopping in international investment law and arbitral decisions that have undertaken to draw this line. While some legal approaches taken by arbitral tribunals have started to consolidate, others remain unsettled, painting a picture of an overall inconsistent jurisprudence. This is hardly surprising, given the thousands of international investment agreements that provide for the investor´s right to sue the host State on grounds of alleged breaches of investment obligations. This book analyses and discusses the different ways by which arbitral tribunals have dealt with the value judgment at the core of the distinction between objectionable and unobjectionable treaty shopping, and makes proposals de lege ferenda on how States could reform their international investment agreements (in particular with respect to treaty drafting) in order to make them less susceptible to the practice of treaty shopping.
Cockayne: Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organized Crime
Hidden Power reveals criminal mafias determining political outcomes to suit their own agendas, and tells how they do it — by influencing elections, changing constitutions, fomenting terrorism, waging war, negotiating peace deals and working behind the scenes in pivotal historical moments such as the Second World War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne reveals a century of forgotten political-criminal collaboration in New York, Sicily and the Caribbean and explains how such links persist globally, from the drug wars in Mexico, to smuggling routes in West Africa, to political instability in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. Forcing us to rethink our distinctions between politics, conflict and crime, Hidden Power reveals a world in which states and mafias compete — and collaborate — for power.
New Issue: Arbitration International
- Articles
- William G. Bassler, The enforceability of emergency awards in the United States: or when interim means final
- David Collins, The line of equilibrium: improving the legitimacy of investment treaty arbitration through the application of the WTO’s general exceptions
- Marc J. Goldstein, Living (or not) with the partisan arbitrator: are there limits to deliberations secrecy?
- Matthew Blome, Contractual waiver of Article 52 ICSID: a solution to the concerns with annulment?
- Joel Dahlquist, Beside the point—on obiter dicta in investment treaty arbitration
- Recent Developments
- Alexey Yadykin, Martin C. Mekat, & Noah Rubins, The Russian arbitration reform
- Arjit Oswal & Balaji Sai Krishnan, Public policy as a ground to set aside arbitral award in India
- Stephen R. Tully, Challenging awards before national courts for a denial of natural justice: lessons from Australia
- Case Notes
- Isha Jain, The legal implications of Indian parties resorting to foreign arbitration: decoding the decision in Addhar
- Amokura Kawharu, Rehearings of jurisdiction issues: a fresh look at the judicial task
AJIL Unbound Symposium: The South China Sea Arbitration
Estrada-Tanck: Human Security and Human Rights under International Law
Human security provides one of the most important protections; a person-centred axis of freedom from fear, from want and to live with dignity. It is surprising given its centrality to the human experience, that its connection with human rights has not yet been explored in a truly systematic way. This important new book addresses that gap in the literature by analysing whether human security might provide the tools for an expansive and integrated interpretation of international human rights. The examination takes a two-part approach. Firstly, it evaluates convergences between human security and all human rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – and constructs an investigative framework focused on the human security-human rights synergy. It then goes on to explore its practical application in the thematic cores of violence against women and undocumented migrants in the law and case-law of UN, European, Inter-American and African human rights bodies. It takes both a legal and interdisciplinary approach, recognising that human security and its relationship with human rights cuts across disciplinary boundaries. Innovative and rigorous, this is an important contribution to human rights scholarship.
New Issue: Human Rights Review
The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 17, no. 4, December 2016) is out. Contents include:- Andrea Betti, “Slay This Monster”: the United States and Opposition to the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court
- Evan W. Sandlin, Competing Concerns: Balancing Human Rights and National Security in US Economic Aid Allocation
- Richard P. Hiskes, The Honor of Human Rights: Environmental Rights and the Duty of Intergenerational Promise
- Jilles L. J. Hazenberg, Transnational Corporations and Human Rights Duties: Perfect and Imperfect
Monday, December 12, 2016
New Issue: Groningen Journal of International Law
- Harmen van der Wilt, Expanding Criminal Responsibility in Challenging Transnational and International Organised Crime
- Andreas Schloenhardt & Rebekkah Markey-Towler, Non-Criminalisation of Victims of Trafficking in Persons — Principles, Promises, and Perspectives
Kahana & Scolnicov: Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights
- Tsvi Kahana & Anat Scolnicov, Introduction
- Jean Thomas, Our rights, but whose duties? Re-conceptualizing rights in the era of globalization
- David Schneiderman, On suffering and societal constitutionalism: at the border of international investment and arbitration
- José E. Alvarez, Beware: boundary crossings
- Mark Tushnet, Dialogue and constitutional duty
- Vicki C. Jackson, Positive obligations, positive rights and constitutional amendment
- Helen Hershkoff, Privatizing public rights: common law and state action in the United States
- Johan van der Walt, Abdications of sovereignty in state action and horizontal effect jurisprudence
- Tsvi Kahana, Hybrid state accountability and hybrid rights: positive rights, exclusion, and state action in Canada
- Anat Scolnicov, Human rights and derivative rights: the European Convention on Human Rights and the rights of corporations
- A. C. L. Davies, Judicial review and Human Rights Act review in contracted-out public services: options for litigation in English law
- Stephanie Palmer, Privatization and human rights in the United Kingdom
- Paul B. Miller, Principles of public fiduciary administration
- Megan Dersnah & Ron Levi, Human rights indicators and boundaries of accountability and opportunity
Howland: International Law and Japanese Sovereignty: The Emerging Global Order in the 19th Century
How does a nation become a great power? A global order was emerging in the nineteenth century, one in which all nations were included. This book explores the multiple legal grounds of Meiji Japan's assertion of sovereign statehood within that order: natural law, treaty law, international administrative law, and the laws of war. Contrary to arguments that Japan was victimized by 'unequal' treaties, or that Japan was required to meet a 'standard of civilization' before it could participate in international society, Howland argues that the Westernizing Japanese state was a player from the start. In the midst of contradictions between law and imperialism, Japan expressed state will and legal acumen as an equal of the Western powers – international incidents in Japanese waters, disputes with foreign powers on Japanese territory, and the prosecution of interstate war. As a member of international administrative unions, Japan worked with fellow members to manage technical systems such as the telegraph and the post. As a member of organizations such as the International Law Association and as a leader at the Hague Peace Conferences, Japan helped to expand international law. By 1907, Japan was the first non-western state to join the ranks of the great powers.
Zou: Sustainable Development and the Law of the Sea
The concept of sustainable development is created to coordinate the relationship between resource uses and environmental protection. Environmental protection is necessary to achieve the goal of sustainable resource uses and economic benefits deriving from resources can provide the conditions in which environmental protection can best be achieved. Sustainable Development and the Law of the Sea offers international legal perspectives on ocean uses including fisheries management, sustainable use of marine non-living resources, and marine protected areas in the context of sustainable development. Pushing that sustainability is a requirement for ocean use as well as for the establishment and development of the world marine legal order, the volume provides a useful reference for policy-makers and the international legal community and for all those interested in ocean governance.
New Issue: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen
- Hendrik Hegemann & Martin Kahl, (Re-)Politisierung der Sicherheit?
- Thomas Sommerer, Transnationale Zivilgesellschaft zwischen Dissidenz und Partizipation
- Antonio Arcudi, Die Responsibility to Protect im Kreuzfeuer der Kritik
- Franziskus von Lucke, Thomas Diez, & Zehra Wellmann, Klimakämpfe: Eine komparative Studie der Versicherheitlichung von Klimawandel
- Thomas Risse & Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, IB in Deutschland: jung, internationalisiert und eklektisch
- Alexander Wendts »Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology«
- Mathias Albert, Theoretischer Quantensprung oder ein Quäntchen IB?
- Stephan Stetter, Säen und Ernten: Quantentheorie sozial- und (welt-)gesellschaftstheoretisch weitergedacht
- Oliver Kessler, The Carpet Crawlers: Quanten in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Special Issue: Ottoman International Law
- Ottoman International Law
- Lâle Can & Michael Christopher Low, The “Subjects” of Ottoman International Law
- Will Smiley, Freeing “The Enslaved People of Islam”: The Changing Meaning of Ottoman Subjecthood for Captives in the Russian Empire
- Aimee M. Genell, The Well-Defended Domains: Eurocentric International Law and the Making of the Ottoman Office of Legal Counsel
- Will Hanley, What Ottoman Nationality Was and Was Not
- Michael Christopher Low, Unfurling the Flag of Extraterritoriality: Autonomy, Foreign Muslims, and the Capitulations in the Ottoman Hijaz
- Faiz Ahmed, Contested Subjects: Ottoman and British Jurisdictional Quarrels in re Afghans and Indian Muslims
- David Gutman, Travel Documents, Mobility Control, and the Ottoman State in an Age of Global Migration, 1880–1915
- Umut Özsu, Ottoman International Law?
New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly
The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 65, no. 4, October 2016) is out. Contents include:- Articles
- Justice Arden, Water for All? Developing a Human Right to Water in National and International Law
- Christof Heyns, Dapo Akande, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, & Thompson Chengeta, The International Law Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones
- Edward Guntrip, Self-Determination and Foreign Direct Investment: Reimagining Sovereignty in International Investment Law
- Richard Lappin, The Right to Vote for Non-Resident Citizens in Europe
- Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku, Bias in Collegiate Courts
- Shorter Article and Notes
- Stefan Talmon, The Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration: Expansion of the Jurisdiction of UNCLOS Part XV Courts and Tribunals
- Eric C Ip, Comparative Subnational Foreign Relations Law in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions
New Issue: International Organization
- Articles
- Muhammet A. Bas & Andrew J. Coe, A Dynamic Theory of Nuclear Proliferation and Preventive War
- Christian Houle, Mark A. Kayser, & Jun Xiang, Diffusion or Confusion? Clustered Shocks and the Conditional Diffusion of Democracy
- Jack Paine, Rethinking the Conflict “Resource Curse”: How Oil Wealth Prevents Center-Seeking Civil Wars
- Meredith Wilf, Credibility and Distributional Effects of International Banking Regulations: Evidence from US Bank Stock Returns
- Timm Betz & Andrew Kerner, Real Exchange Rate Overvaluation and WTO Dispute Initiation in Developing Countries
- Karolina M. Milewicz & Duncan Snidal, Cooperation by Treaty: The Role of Multilateral Powers
- Review Essay
- Jordan Branch, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in International Relations
New Issue: Transnational Environmental Law
The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Vol. 5, no. 2, October 2016) is out. Contents include:- Editorial
- Thijs Etty, Veerle Heyvaert, Cinnamon Carlarne, Dan Farber, Bruce Huber, & Jolene Lin, A Celebration of the Fifth Anniversary of Transnational Environmental Law
- Anniversary Issue
- Jacqueline Peel, Foreword
- Sébastien Jodoin & Sarah Mason-Case, What Difference Does CBDR Make? A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Role of Differentiation in the Transnational Legal Process for REDD+
- Christina Voigt & Felipe Ferreira, ‘Dynamic Differentiation’: The Principles of CBDR-RC, Progression and Highest Possible Ambition in the Paris Agreement
- Philippe Cullet, Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps
- Patrícia Galvão Ferreira, ‘Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ in the National Courts: Lessons from Urgenda v. The Netherlands
- Lisa Benjamin, The Responsibilities of Carbon Major Companies: Are They (and Is the Law) Doing Enough?
- Paula Castro, Common But Differentiated Responsibilities Beyond the Nation State: How Is Differential Treatment Addressed in Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives?
- Maria Antonia Tigre, Cooperation for Climate Mitigation in Amazonia: Brazil’s Emerging Role as a Regional Leader
- Anna Huggins & Md Saiful Karim, Shifting Traction: Differential Treatment and Substantive and Procedural Regard in the International Climate Change Regime
Conference: Public Health and International Law
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Wiesand, Chainoglou, & Śledzińska-Simon: Culture and Human Rights: The Wroclaw Commentaries
The Wroclaw Commentaries address legal questions as well as political consequences related to freedom of, and access to, the arts and (old/new) media; questions of religious and language rights; the protection of minorities and other vulnerable groups; safeguarding cultural diversity and heritage; and further pertinent issues. Specialists from all over Europe and the world summarise and comment on core messages of legal instruments, the essence of case-law as well as prevailing and important dissenting opinions in the literature, with the aim of providing a user-friendly tool for the daily needs of decision or law-makers at different juridical, administrative and political levels as well as others working in the field of culture and human rights.
Call for Papers: Exploring the Human Element of the Oceans: The Gender Implications of the Law of the Sea
Exploring the human element of the oceans:
the gender implications of the law of the sea25-26 May 2017
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Call for Papers
The School of Law, University of Milano-Bicocca is organising a two-days conference on the gender implications of the law of the sea, to be held in Milan (Italy) on 25-26 May 2017.
Concept
The conference stems from an empirical consideration: international law of the sea, including maritime law, has been traditionally silent about the role played by women at sea, and this is very much the case still today. Regulation is scant and scholarly research almost non-existent. The growing interest of scholars in the analysis of law of the sea and maritime law from a more human-oriented approach, in an attempt to integrate the human element into the law of the sea rules, has led to multiple interconnections between these two fields and international human rights law. However, none of these efforts have broached the impact of gender and women at sea. Yet, the issue is far from idle: women are increasingly accessing maritime careers and states and private actors are faced with the ensuing issues. In particular, the contribution of women in small- and medium-scale commercial fisheries is paramount, although often unrecognised and unregulated. The role of women as active agents and participants has been overlooked and international law of the sea still largely qualifies as a “male affair”. At the same time, women constitute also a vulnerable group in international law of the sea, as they are more likely to be subject to trafficking, torture, and sexual abuses at seas, whether they end up there as seafarers, members of national navies, passengers or victims of trafficking.
Furthermore, after the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set the agenda for reaching women’s rights, gender equality has been placed at the frontline on the 2000 Millennium Development Goals. The MDG call upon the UN, the international community and civil society to adopt action and policies of gender mainstreaming tailored to achieve the equality commitments. At the institutional level, the need to recognise and strengthen the capacity of women in the maritime sector is currently addressed by the International Maritime Organization, the International Labour Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, and has been recently recalled also by the Secretary General of the United Nations in his 2014 and 2015 Reports to the General Assembly on Oceans and Law of the Sea.
The purpose of the conference is therefore to open up this field of research to the academic and professional communities, by mapping the existing international legal framework and discussing whether existing norms provide adequate protection for both women and men at sea and sufficient tools to strengthen their capacity to engage in a productive manner in this field. Questions that the conference intends to explore include: Is international law of the sea gender neutral, or does it reflect a male perspective that eventually marginalises women? What can be said about the role of international human rights law in providing protection to women at sea? Should a reevaluation or re-interpretation of the system be taken into account in order to integrate a gender perspective? What are the most relevant areas in the law of the sea and maritime law where women play a major role or face particular hardships? How can their role be strengthened and women themselves be empowered?
The conference convenors welcome contributions on the gender implications of the law of the sea. We are particularly interested in international, comparative and EU perspectives on the following topics:
Application process
- International law of the sea and gender. Is the law of the sea gender neutral? Could/should feminist legal theory engage more with the topic? Would law of the sea benefit from such an analytical approach?
- Torture, sexual abuses and trafficking at sea. Human trafficking, forced labour and slavery are endemic phenomena in the fisheries sector in some geographical areas; men and women, often due to their ethnicity, are sold and forced to work under physical and psychological threat. Women are the most vulnerable subject to torture, rape and sexual abuses. Do existing international norms adequately address the issue? What is peculiar about torture and sexual abuses when they occur at sea? Does international human rights law constitute a sufficient ground to tackle issues faced by women at sea or does it reinforce the depiction of women as victims rather than active participants within the international law of the sea framework?
- The fisheries sector. Women constitute a major force in the small-scale sector of fisheries and aquaculture, yet their contribution is often deemed as informal, making women invisible. Furthermore, women are particularly vulnerable to international policies and deals that push towards the large-scale commercial sector. In its recent General Recommendation no. 34, the CEDAW Committee has called on State parties to integrate a gender perspective in their development policies and strategies, including the aquaculture and fishery sector. Does the current international legal framework provide adequate protection? What can we say about the role played by CEDAW? What about rural women and their contribution in the small-scale fishery industry?
- Empowerment. Is there adequate access for women to the maritime sector? What tools, if any, are in place to favour their integration? What can international law say about the lack of women as members of national navies?
- Participation. How can women participate as policy makers and stakeholders in the maritime sector? Does the process of policy making adequately engage with women? Does the current legal framework reflect roles and participation of women in the maritime sector or does it ignore its gender implications?
Proposed papers should include an abstract of no more than 500 words and a CV with list of publications and should be submitted to both irini.papanicolopulu@unimib.it and a.ollino@campus.unimib.it by 31 January 2017. Notification of the selected papers will be made by 28 February 2017.
A selection of conference papers will be published in an edited volume. To this end, selected applicants will be required to submit a final version of the paper by 30 November 2017.
Contact information
Should you have any enquiry regarding the conference, call for papers or programme, please contact Irini Papanicolopulu at irini.papanicolopulu@unimib.it.
Abebe: The Emerging Law of Forced Displacement in Africa
As of the end of 2015, there were 40.8 civilians who had been internally displaced by conflicts and effects of natural disasters in various parts of the world. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are currently the largest group of persons receiving assistance from some of the main international humanitarian organisations. With the largest concentration of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the African continent has been the worst affected region. While previously IDPs have largely been neglected under international law, the first-ever continental binding treaty on internal displacement, the African Union Convention on the Protection of and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (the Kampala Convention), entered into force on 6 December 2012. As of January 2016, 25 states have ratified the instrument while 40 states have become signatories.
This book significantly contributes to the study, policy making and practice on managing internal displacement by presenting the first major systematic examination of the evolution, elements and implementation of the Kampala Convention. It explores the responsibility of the state for the protection of IDPs particularly those who are most vulnerable during armed conflicts, internal strife, natural disasters, human rights violations and other circumstances. The status of ratification of the Convention is reviewed as well as the steps currently being undertaken by governments to implement the Convention. It also analyses the contribution by human rights mechanisms, inter-governmental bodies and UN peace-keeping missions in the implementation of the Convention. The book casts the Kampala Convention in broader institutional and normative developments in Africa and beyond. It demonstrates how concepts such as ‘responsibility to protect’ and ‘sovereignty as responsibility’ have begun to make inroads; influencing some of the more progressive instruments adopted by the African Union. It also sheds light on the relationship between the Convention and some regional instruments. In assessing the effectiveness of the Kampala Convention Allehone Abebe argues that the link between the Convention and initiatives on development, human rights and governance in Africa should be fully fostered.
