Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics

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ID19940484
AuthorsPeter Brett (0000-0003-3519-0345, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages12
Publication date2018-09-18
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHuman Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315267296
OpenAlexW2895165088
ISBN9781315267296
Open LibraryOL53993229M
LanguageEN
Citations received15

Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics shows readers how central questions in African politics have entered courtrooms over the last three decades, and provides the first transnational explanation for this development. The book begins with three conditions that have made judicialisation possible in Africa as a whole; new corporate rights norms (including the expansion of indigenous rights), the proliferation of new avenues for legal proceedings, and the development of new support structures enabling litigation. It then studies the effects of these changes based on fieldwork in three Southern African countries – Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana. Examining three recent court cases involving international law, international courts and transnational NGOs, it looks beyond some of international relations’ established models to explain when and why and legal rights can be clarified. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics and human rights, and more broadly to international relations and international law and justice

Economic Justice · Human rights · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · International human rights law · International law · International relations · Political science · Politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Africa

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