The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) invites you to the virtual book launch of A Theory on Africanizing International Law, by Micha Wiebusch (2024).
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Event Details
Tuesday 10 September 2024
16:00 – 17:00 (SAST/ CET)
Online (Zoom)
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 specifi c 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.
Reviews: This book has already been endorsed by two anthropology professors, seven professors of politics, twenty-nine law professors, twojudges at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, four Legal Counsels of the African Union (i.e. the highest ranking jurist in the AUsystem), six heads of African Union bodies, three registrars of internationalcourts in Africa, two judges at the International Court of Justice, fivemembers of the UN International Law Commission, four members ofUN bodies, one president of a constitutional court, two chairpersonsof National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Africa, five heads ofcontinental CSOs, two ambassadors, one deputy-attorney general and fivemembers of the Institut de Droit International.
About the Author: Micha Wiebusch is an Associate Professor (adjunct) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Town, where he heads the Research Unit of the Judicial Institute for Africa (JIFA). He is also a seniorlegal officer at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, African Union. The views expressed in this book are personal and should not be ascribed to any of the institutions with which the author works.
Event Programme
- Chair: Frans Vijoen
- Author: Micha Wiebusch
Panelists:
- Prof Danwood Chirwa
Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town - Prof Nsongurua Udombana
Professor of International Law, University of Uyo, Nigeria
- Ms Aua Baldéc
Chair-Rapporteur of the UN WGEID
Catolica Global School of Law
Q&A session
Concluding remarks
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