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African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems
Author | : Oche Onazi |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789400775374 |
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The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.
African Law and Legal Theory
Author | : Gordon R. Woodman,Akintunde Olusegun Obilade |
Publsiher | : Dartmouth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Customary law |
ISBN | : UVA:X002716071 |
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The papers presented in this volume aim to contribute to the development of African legal theory. Issues discussed include: legal anthropology, customary law in the state legal system; legal concepts; and procedural and substantive justice.
Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality
Author | : Artwell Nhemachena,Victor Warikandwa |
Publsiher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2018-06-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9789956550494 |
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Right from the enslavement era through to the colonial and contemporary eras, Africans have been denied their human essence portrayed as indistinct from animals or beasts for imperial burdens, Africans have been historically dispossessed and exploited. Postulating the theory of global jurisprudential apartheid, the book accounts for biases in various legal systems, norms, values and conventions that bind Africans while affording impunity to Western states. Drawing on contemporary notions of animism, transhumanism, posthumanism and science and technology studies, the book critically interrogates the possibility of a jurisprudence of anticipation which is attentive to the emergent New World Order that engineers human beings to become nonhumans while nonhumans become humans. Connecting discourses on decoloniality with jurisprudence in the areas of family law, environment, indigenisation, property, migration, constitutionalism, employment and labour law, commercial law and Ubuntu, the book also juggles with emergent issues around Earth Jurisprudence, ecocentrism, wild law, rights of nature, Earth Court and Earth Tribunal. Arguing for decoloniality that attends to global jurisprudential apartheid., this tome is handy for legal scholars and practitioners, social scientists, civil society organisations, policy makers and researchers interested in transformation, decoloniality and Pan-Africanism.
An African Path to Disability Justice
Author | : Oche Onazi |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9783030358501 |
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How should disability justice be conceptualised, not by orthodox human rights or capabilities approaches, but by a legal philosophy that mirrors an African relational community ideal? This book develops the first comprehensive answer to this question through the contemporary literature on African philosophy, which is relied upon to construct a legal philosophy of disability justice comprising of ethical ideals of community, human relationships and obligations. From these ideals, an African legal philosophy of disability justice is offered as a criterion for critically evaluating existing laws, legal and political institutions, as well as providing an ethical basis for creating new ones to ensure that they are inclusive to people with disabilities. In taking an alternative perspective on the subject, the book outlines and emphasises the need for a new public culture of obligations owed to people with disabilities, highlighting both the prospects and difficulties of achieving the ideal of disability justice that continues to elude the lived experiences of millions of Africans today. Oche Onazi's An African Path to Disability Justice is the first book-length exploration of disability in the light of African ethics, as contrasted with the human rights and capabilities frameworks. Of particular interest are Onazi's thoughtful reflections on how various conceptions of community salient in African moral philosophy––including group-based, reciprocal and relational––bear on what we owe to the disabled. --Thaddeus Metz, Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
African Law
Author | : Hans Wolfgang Baade |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4967006 |
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Law in Aid of Development
Author | : Tawia Modibo Ocran |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3891956 |
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An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy
Author | : John Murungi |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780739174678 |
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This is an introductory book on African legal philosophy. The book claims that African legal philosophy exists and is intelligible in the context of African culture, just as every other legal philosophy has its cultural foundation. What law is, how it is thought, how it is interpreted, and how it is applied takes place with thing the parameters of African culture. At a time when the imposition of Western culture on Africans has to be reckoned with, African legal philosophy is, in part, a response to this imposition. It ought to have a liberating effect.
Research Handbook on Modern Legal Realism
Author | : Shauhin Talesh,Elizabeth Mertz,Heinz Klug |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2021-03-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781788117777 |
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This insightful Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement, reaching beyond historical and national boundaries to form new conversations. Drawing on deep roots within the law-and-society tradition, it demonstrates the powerful virtues of new legal realist research and its attention to the challenges of translation between social science and law. It explores an impressive range of contemporary issues including immigration, policing, globalization, legal education, and access to justice, concluding with and examination of how different social science disciplines intersect with NLR.