EDITORS
- Frans Viljoen
Editor-in-chief, Professor of law, Centre for Human
Rights and Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South
Africa
- Christof Heyns
Dean and professor of human rights law, Faculty of
Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa
ASSISTANT
EDITOR
- Annelize Nienaber
Senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria,
South Africa
PUBLICATION
MANAGER
- Isabeau de Meyer
Programme Manager, Centre for Human Rigths, University
of Pretoria, South Africa
ASSISTED
BY
- Kweku Antwi
Programme officer, Centre for Human Rights, University
of Pretoria, South Africa
Waruguru Kaguongo
Researcher, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Magnus Killander
- Researcher, Centre for Human Rights, University
of Pretoria
- Martin Nsbirwa
Programme Manager, Centre for Human Rights, University of
Pretoria
INTERNATIONAL
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
- Gudmundur Alfredsson
Professor of law and Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden
- Jean Allain
Senior lecturer in public international law, Queen's University
of Belfast, Ireland
- Fareda Banda
Reader in the Laws of Africa, School of Oriental and African
Studies, London
Victor Dankwa
Professor of law, University of Ghana
- Erika de Wet
Professor of International constitutional law, University
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John Dugard
Professor of law, University of Leiden, the Netherlands;
Member, International Law Commission and Extraordinary professor,
Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
- Cees Flinterman
Professor of human rights law and Director, Netherlands
Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht, the
Netherlands
- Abdul G Koroma
Judge, International Court of Justice
- Edward Kwakwa
Legal counsel, World Intellectual Property Organisation,
Geneva, Switzerland
- Pius Langa
Chief Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Sandy Liebenberg
HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, University of
Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Tiyanjana Maluwa
Professor of law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania
State University, USA
- Joe Oloka-Onyango
Associate professor of law, Faculty of Law, Makerere University,Uganda
- Kate O'Regan
Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Fatsah Ouguergouz
Secretary of the International Court of Justice
- Michael Reisman
Myres S McDougal Professor of international law, Yale
Law School, USA
- Geraldine van Bueren
Professor of international human rights law, University
of London
AFRICAN
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW JOURNAL
GUIDE FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Contributions should preferably
be e-mailed to:
isabeau.demeyer@up.ac.za
But may also be posted to:
The Editors
African Human Rights Law Journal
Centre for Human Rights
Faculty of Law
University of Pretoria
Pretoria
South Africa
0002
All correspondence, books for
review and other communications should be sent to the same address.
The editors will consider only material that complies with the
following requirements:
- The submission must be original.
- The submission should not already have
been published elsewhere.
- Papers should average between 5 000
and 10 000 words (including footnotes) in length.
- If the manuscript is not sent by e-mail,
it should be submitted as hard copy and in electronic format
(MS Word).
- The manuscript should be typed in Arial,
12 point (footnotes 10 point), 1½ spacing.
- Authors of contributions are to supply
their university degrees, professional qualifications and
professional or academic status.
- Authors should supply a summary of their contributions of
not more than 300 words
- Footnotes must be numbered consecutively.
Footnote numbers should be in superscript without any surrounding
brackets.
The manuscript will be submitted
to a referee for evaluation. The editors reserve the right to
change manuscripts to make them conform with the house style,
to improve accuracy, to eliminate mistakes and ambiguity, and
to bring the manuscript in line with the tenets of plain legal
language.
The following general style point should be followed:
- First reference to books: eg UO Umozurike
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1997) 21.
- First reference to journal articles: eg C
Anyangwe 'Obligations of states parties to the African Charter
on Human and Peoples' Rights' (1998) 10 African Journal of
International and Comparative Law 625.
- Subsequent references to footnote in which
first reference was made: eg Patel & Watters (n 34 above)
243.
- Use UK English.
- Proper nouns used in the body of the article
are written out in full the first time they are used, but
abbreviated the next time, eg the United Nations (UN).
- Words such as 'article' and 'section' are
written out in full in the text. Where possible, abbreviations
should be used in footnotes, eg ch; para; paras; art; arts;
sec; secs. No full stops should be use.
- Words in a foreign language should be italicised.
- Numbering should be done as follows:
1
2
3.1
3.2.1
-
Smart single quotes should be used; if something is quoted
within a quotation, double quotation marks should be used
for that section.
- Quotations longer than twenty words should
be indented and in 10 point, in which case no quotation marks
are necessary.
- The names of authors should be written as
follows: FH Anant.
- Where more than one author are involved, use
'&': eg FH Anant & SCH Mahlangu.
- Dates should be written as follows (in text
and footnotes): 28 November 2001.
- Numbers up to ten are written out in full;
from 11 use numerals.
- Capitals are not used for generic terms -
'constitution', but when a specific country's constitution
is referred to, capitals are used - 'Constitution".
- Official titles are capitalised: eg 'the President
of the Constitutional Court'.
- Refer to the Journal for additional aspects
of house style.
2007
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