Africa

Transitional justice in Africa: the experience with truth commissions

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Article looking at transitional justice and the African truth commissions, written by Charles Manga Fombad who is Professor of Law at the University of Botswana. The article was published in 2008 and updated in 2022 on New York University's Globalex website. Covers truth commissions in 18 African countries and comments on their work. Links are given to related legal resources including research guides, bibliographies and law libraries.

African Union treaties

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Treaty page of the African Union (AU) website, providing treaties sponsored by the AU with lists of participants and dates of adoption, entry into force and ratification. The list of treaties can be filtered by subject. All the treaty texts are available English and French and some are also in Arabic and/or Portuguese; the status lists are in English only. 

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

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Peer-reviewed open access journal published at the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, United States. The journal comes out twice a year; it focuses on criminology and justice systems and their impact on Africans and people of African descent. 

African Journal of Legal Studies

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Peer-reviewed journal covering governance and the rule of law in Africa, published by Brill. Open access from 2004 to 2017, contents pages only 2018 onwards.  

Africa South of the Sahara: African Law

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Annotated links to African legal material available online, provided by Stanford University Libraries. The links are arranged alphabetically and cover journals, organisations, government bodies, official publications, research centres, courts and case law. There are also links to general sites providing information on African law. Some of the resources linked to are in French.

OHADA.com

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OHADA.com provides information and documentation relating to the Organization for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa, including the OHADA Treaty, OHADA uniform acts and implementing rules in English and French. Summaries of the judgments of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) are provided in French only; for the full text (also in French), registration is required but there is no charge.

Regional trade agreements in Africa: a historical and bibliographic account of ECOWAS and CEMAC

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Guide to African regional trade agreements by Victor Essien of Fordham Law School in the United States, updated by Miarom Bégoto of the National School of Administration in Chad. The guide was published on New York University's Globalex website in 2006 and most recently updated in 2023.

Sources of online legal information for African countries

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Guide to online legal resources for African countries by Jane Williams, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian at Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library at the University of Illinois College of Law. Available on New York University's Globalex website, the guide was last updated by C. Deane in 2024. It includes annotated links to primary resources and to secondary sources including news, indexes, library catalogues, journals, and papers. There is also a list of resources arranged by country.

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