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The justiciability of the right to development in Ghana : mirage or possibility?
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
An analysis of the debate on the right to development (RTD) suggests that
the right is pursued as a solution to solve the problems of poverty and underdevelopment.
Thus, this study seeks to determine if at the national ...
Analysing the future of international criminal justice in Africa: a focus on the ICC
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
The International Criminal Court has generally a bad reputation in the African
continent as a whole with hostile assertions by the African Union, that the court
is nothing but a political tool for the powerful. The Court, ...
Ours by right
(Strathmore University Press, 2013)
This is a pioneering study on a critical, yet infinitely complex subject, in the setting of legal and
constitutional rights in an African country: the subject of property rights. If the property-rights
label appears ...
The wretched African traditionalists in Kenya : the challenges and prospects of customary law in the new constitutional era
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
The modern African judge will be the first to acknowledge that, in many senses,
the problems faced by British judges in colonial Africa have not vanished. Almost
one hundred percent of the African judiciary is now African. ...
ADR, access to justice and development in Kenya
(Kariuki Muigua and Company, 2014-05)
Development is not feasible in a conflict situation. Conflicts and disputes must be
managed effectively and expeditiously for development to take place. Formal mechanisms for
conflict management have not always been ...
Transitional justice as a path to distributive justice: a jurisprudential and legal case for land restitution in Kenya
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
Rawls’ theory of distributive justice may serve as a useful model in conceptualizing
a model of the ideal political economy – one that seeks to keep inequalities
that have come about as a result of natural accident to a ...
Governance,institutions & the human condition
This is a series of papers at the Fifth Annual Strathmore Conference published by LawAfrica
Minors, sex and the law: rethinking the regulation of consensual sex between minors in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2018)
According to the Sexual Offences Act of Kenya (2006), minors cannot consent to sex. Any act of sex with a minor is deemed defilement, a strict liability offence, punishable by law. This provision in law was aimed at ...
Fragmentation in a bid to defragment : decentralisation as a solution to the challenge of inclusion in the Kenyan context
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
Fragmentation is a practical tool suggested in this paper to bring about
societal inclusion. Indeed, this is not a novel idea. Kenya has joined the league
of practitioners of decentralisation, a system of governance that ...
International Criminal Justice in Africa
(Strathmore University Press, 2016)
This book contains a collection of papers by members of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s African Group of Experts on International Criminal Justice. The book is the third of its kind1 and follows in the footsteps of its ...