Africa : Mapping New Boundaries in International Law

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PART I:HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE 2.WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND AFRICA'S EVOLVING LEGAL LANDSCAPE: PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law 3.SOVEREIGNTY AS RESPONSIBILITY: PROTECTING VULNBERABLE POPULATIONS DURING WAR Khassim Diagne, Senior Advisor, Office of the SRSG for the Great Lakes Region, United Nations Office in Nairobi 4.AFRICAN STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NORM OF DISPLACEMENT: STANDARDS VERSUS IMPLEMENTATION M. Francis Deng, Research Professor of International Law, Politics and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons 5.THE CAIRO-ARUSHA PRINCIPLES ON UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS OFFENSES: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE Evelyn A. Ankumah, Executive Director, Africa Legal Aide, (Ghana) 6.TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA: NEW MODELS, NEW APPROACHES Chaloka Beyani, Senior Lecturer in International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law PART II:COLLECTIVE SECUITY AND GOVERNANCE 7.SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN AFRICA Dino Kritsiotis, Reader in International Law, University of Nottingham School of Law 8.PRO-DEMOCRATIC INTERVENTION IN AFRICA Jeremy I. Levitt, Assistant Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law 9.AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: POST-CONFLICT MODELS OF MULTI-ETHNIC GOVERNANCE H. Kwasi Prempeh, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School PART III:INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW 10.REGIONAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE AU, EACS, ECOWAS, COMESA AND SADC: A STRUCTURAL APPROACH? Craig Jackson, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law 11.NEPAD AND THE REBIRTH OF DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRAXIS Maxwell Chibundu, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Law School PART IV:REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERAL GOVERNANCE 12.THE OAU/AFRICAN UNION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES OR REVISITING OLD TERRAIN? Tiyanjana Maluwa, H. Ladie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law 13.THE AFRICAN UNION AND THE AFRICAN PEER REVIEW MECHANISM (APRM) Vincent O. Nmehielle, Associate of Professor of Law, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand