Volume 19 (2016), Edition 1

This article examines the extent to which the legal and management framework governing the rapidly developing oil and gas industry in Tanzania provides access rights to key stake- holders. The focus on management and access rights has been confined...

To be characterized as a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute, any act referred to in that provision must be committed as part of an attack against any civilian population. This last requirement is included in the legal...

The Nigerian Marriage Act 1914 provides certain preliminary formalities which a prospec- tive couple should comply with before celebrating statutory marriage. An examination of the reported decisions shows that the Act’s potency is whittled down...

Adopted in institutional pain and popular protest, the Congolese Constitution of 6 Novem- ber 2015 raises some fundamental problems. Indeed, its transitional measure establishes a kind of constitutional dualism, maintaining the institutions created...

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...

In February 2016 seven German judges and public prosecutors of the judiciary of Baden- Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz had the great opportunity of a ten-day-visit to either Rwanda or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a joint conference on...

After Stuttgart (Germany) and Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo - DRC) meetings, another round of conference was organized by the Robert Bosch Foundation, in collaboration with the African Law Association (Germany), in Nairobi (Kenya), from...

The Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has delivered its judgment of 21 November 2015 seeking to interpret a judgment of 8 September 2015 in which it had ordered the Government to take ‘exceptional transitional measures’ in...