RiA Recht in Afrika | Law in Africa | Droit en Afrique

Comparative law has always been an important tool in the formation and development of the South African rule of law. The perspective of South African comparative law has changed significantly over the past decades. Whereas foreign jurisprudence had...

The paper deals with arbitration law in Ivory Coast and is mainly based on interviews with the most important authorities in this field. After a short introduction into the OHADA legal system the two main arbitration centres of Ivory Coast are...

The Kenyan market is one example of business opportunities in Africa. Kenya shows notable improvements in terms of business-related reforms while being in continuous need of investments in the energy and infrastructural sector. Still, many European...

In Fortschreibung des Berichts über die Aktivitäten der Gesellschaft für afrikanisches Recht für Jahr 2014 werden die Mitglieder unserer Gesellschaft und die interessierte Öffentlichkeit auch im laufenden Kalenderjahr über die Tätigkeiten...

Seconde rencontre du genre, la Conférence internationale de Lubumbashi (République Démocratique du Congo) fait suite à l’échange d’expériences entre magistrats allemands et jeunes juristes provenant du Burundi, de la République...

This article argues that land dispossession of the indigenous people (the Khoikhoi and the San) and the black communities in South Africa started long before 1913. The first process of land dispossession commenced when the first Dutch settlers...

Five years after the coming into force of the East African Community Common Market (CMP), the Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) are now determined to move to the second round of negotiations aimed at achieving a progressively higher...

This commentary examines the meaning of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Decision of 13 June 2015 on the particular point of the theory of implicit waiver by the Security Council of personal immunity of a sitting head of state not party to...

Das Konzept des juristischen Austauschprogramms zwischen dem deutschen Bundesland Baden-Württemberg und den afrikanischen Staaten Burundi, Ruanda und der Demokratischen Republik Kongo wurde bereits im letzten Jahrgang dieser Zeitschrift...