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Application of African customary law: tracing its degradation and analysing the challenges it confronts
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
Historically, African customary law has occupied the lower rungs of the legal
ladder, often being set aside for more formal laws. This is primarily due to the
introduction of western and religious legal systems through ...
Implementation remains the achilles heel of the African Union: a study of the African Peer-Review Mechanism (APRM)
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
The potential power of Africa is undisputed. The continent is home to a large,
young population and is a potential economic powerhouse in the world. In order
to realise its full potential, the African Union (AU) must ...
Public pressure, temptation of power and unconstitutional actions in the war against terrorism in Kenya: suggesting a link
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
The reaction of the government in Kenya, like many other governments around
the world, to terrorist attacks has generally been to strengthen existing laws and
enact novel laws, especially those that aid the state’s ...
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 ...
An analysis of penal law objectives in child abuse cases: a comparison of the Kenyan and Canadian experiences
(Strathmore University, 2016)
The main objective of this paper is to assess the veracity of penal law objectives in child abuse
cases in Kenya. The Children's Act under Section 2 looks at child abuse as consisting physical,
sexual, psychological and ...
Governing the commons through customary law systems of water governance
(CEESP and IUCN, 2014)
The resilience of customary law systems of natural resource governance in many parts of the
world lends credence to Ostrom’s theory on the governance of commons. Ostrom argued that
resource users who enjoy relative ...
Stakeholders’ perception of the implementation of the Supreme Court of Kenya’s advisory opinion on gender representation: policy lessons and perspectives.
(Strathmore University, 2016)
The study examined stakeholder perceptions’ of the implementation of the Supreme Court of Kenya’s advisory opinion on gender representation. It aimed to establish the stakeholder perception of the implementation based on ...
A perspective on the doctrine of the separation of powers based on the response to court orders in Kenya
(Strathmore University Press, 2016-01)
The Constitution of Kenya provides that the sovereign power of the people shall be
vested in the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, reflecting the democratic
ideal that if power is concentrated in the hands ...
Governance,institutions & the human condition
This is a series of papers at the Fifth Annual Strathmore Conference published by LawAfrica