An ‘African Justice’: Legal Integration and the Emergence of an African Judicial System

Abstract

In 2017, the African Union adopted a non-binding resolution calling for a collective withdrawal of its members from the International Criminal Court (ICC). An exodus from the ICC poses the question of what happens next in the African judicial landscape. This paper probes into efforts to erect an African judicial infrastructure. It is a non-experimental case study that employs the characteristics of international law to examine various attempts towards forging an African judicial system. A critical examination of existing African judicial institutions against certain benchmarks of international law reveals that alternative structures and mechanisms of international justice exist in Africa.

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African judicial system African law harmonization of laws African Union international law continental judicial institutions

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