PROGRAM : Arbitration & Africa Francophone / Lusophone seen from the ICC Arbitration & francophone/lusophone Africa seen from the ICC Arbitration & English-speaking Africa from the ICC perspective The Africanization of Arbitration Investment Arbitration in Africa – Trap or Opportunity? Pan-African and regional perspectives OHADA – strengths & weaknesses, the main areas of reform The...
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Public Business Law in Africa
Public Business Law in Africa
Prevention of Torture in Africa: between Conventional and Non-Conventional Standards
By Jean Baptiste HARELIMANA, President of the Orientation Council, IAM, Lawyer at the Nanterre Bar Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there has been a broad consensus that torture is unacceptable and that it is a crime under international law. The prohibition of torture does not seem to require flexibility, since...
Africa and International Criminal Justice
Mutoy Mubiala, Official at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva; visiting professor at the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and at the Ecole nationale d’administration (Paris). The views expressed in this column are personal and do not bind the United Nations. After contributing to the development of international criminal justice,...
The Normative Force of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity
By Jean-Baptiste HARELIMANA, President of the Orientation Council, IAM. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and especially in the face of the current challenges of the power of the digital age, and the plural referentials that challenge not only cultural...
The common and land ownership law
By Étienne Le Roy is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology of Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne /LAJP Summary : In addition to purely private goods (rival and exclusive) and purely public goods (non-rival and non-exclusive) such as lighting, there are hybrid or mixed goods, both exclusive and non-rivalrous, such as bridges and...