... Thuo Gathii, Oxford University Press (2020). © The Several Contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198868477.003.0005. This chapter fills the gap in the judicialization of mega-political disputes before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court...

... society groups, and sub-regional parliaments explain why efforts to eliminate the three courts or narrow their jurisdiction were defeated in ECOWAS, scaled back in the EACJ and largely succeeded in the SADC. East African Court of Justice EACJ Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS Court...

... our gratitude for the grant that funded the research on which this chapter is based. Obiora C. Okafor and Okechukwu J. Effoduh, The ECOWAS Court as a (Promising) Resource for Pro-Poor Activist Forces In: The Performance of Africa’s International Courts. Edited by: James Thuo Gathii, Oxford University...

... 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...

...) Court of Justice, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice. They all came into being in the last twenty years or so. They were established under the treaties creating the five regional economic communities (RECs). Each regional economic community has, as a result...