African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems Critical Essays /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Onazi, Oche (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 29
• Θέματα: Law.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Political science.; International education.; Comparative education.; Law > Philosophy.; Development economics.; Criminology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Development Economics.; International and Comparative Education.

The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Introduction; Oche Onazi
• Part I:  Law
• Chapter 1 On ‘African’ Legal Theory: A Possibility, An Impossibility or Mere Conundrum?; Chikosa Mozesi Silungwe
• Chapter 2 When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points Two Ways: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias; Mark Toufayan
• Chapter 3 Decoding Afrocentrism: Decolonizing Legal Theory; Dan Kuwali
• Chapter 4 Connecting African Jurisprudence to Universal Jurisprudence through a shared understanding of Contract; Dominic Burbidge
• Chapter The Legal Subject in Modern African Law: A Nigerian Report; Olúfémi Táíwó
• Part II: Rights
• Chapter 6 African Values, Human Rights and Group Rights: A Philosophical Foundation for the Banjul Charter; Thaddeus Metz
• Chapter 7 Before Rights and Responsibilities: An African Ethos of Citizenship; Oche Onazi
• Chapter 8 The Practice and the Promise of Making Rights Claims: Lessons from the South African Treatment Access Campaign; Karen Zivi.- Chapter 9 Unpacking the Universal: African Human Rights Philosophy in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart; Basil Ugochukwu
• Part III: Society
• Chapter 10 Legal Empowerment of the Poor:  Does Political Participation matter? Oche Onazi
• Chapter 11 The Humanist basis of African Communitarianism as viable third alternative theory of developmentalism; Adebisi Arewa
• 12 Crime Detection and the Psychic Witness in America: an Allegory for re-appraising Indigenous African Criminology; Babafemi Odunsi
• Index.