1st Edition

Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics

By Peter Brett Copyright 2019
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction  Part One: Explaining Judicialisation    1. New Norms: The Impossible Institutionalisation of Corporate Rights  2. New Courts: The Rights Revolution and the New Terrain of International Law  3. New Lawyers: South African Advocates Abroad  Part Two: Case Studies  4. Who Represents Namibians?  5. Who is Indigenous to Botswana?  6. Who is a Zimbabwean?   Conclusion

Biography

Peter Brett is Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.