... Contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198868477.003.0003. This chapter examines cases in the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) arising from the protracted and systemic abuses of human rights in Burundi. It argues that the EACJ’s role in accepting and deciding cases arises in large part from the ongoing...

... of Justice (EACJ) and to remove some of its judges after a decision challenging an election to a sub-regional legislature. However, the Member States agreed to restructure the EACJ in ways that have significantly affected the Court’s subsequent trajectory. In Southern Africa, after the Southern African...

... generation of scholarship on Africa’s international courts emphasized. African Court on Human and People’s Rights ACtHPR East African Court of Justice EACJ Court of Justice ECOWAS Court or ECCJ Gathii James Thuo Southern African Development Community SADC Tribunal Posner Eric Viljoen Frans Yoo John...

... starts with the human rights-oriented courts: East African Court of Justice (EACJ); Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice (ECCJ); South African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal; and the African Court and Commission. It then discusses the Common Market...

... in four of the six East African Community Member States: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Sudan. Opposition political parties and politicians from these countries have prodded the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) to use a treaty remedy for violations of rules governing the elections of members...

... direct and indirect impact than in delivering individual justice in the short term. The chapter focuses on two courts: the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) and the Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Court). The chapter argues that the EACJ has mainly acted...

...There are currently five regional courts in the African continent: the East African Court of Justice (EACJ); the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Tribunal, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal, the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC...

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188, 192 9 3 Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania v. African Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW), Appeal No. 3 of 2011, at 11 (Apr. 26, 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Baranzira Raphael v. Attorney Gen. the Republic of Burundi, EACJ Ref. No. 15 of 2014...