What is African Law?

The Max Planck Law Initiative, Law and Africa, is pleased to offer its first online event, featuring Professor Atuguba on the question: What is African law?

To address this question, Professor Atuguba will present and engage with the following areas: legal systems before the entry of various European systems of law, multiple levels of legal pluralism in Africa, the hierarchy of norms in plural legal systems, the automatic subordination of pre-existing norms, the domestication and application of international law in plural legal systems, and the resurgence of Customary Law in Africa and the need for indigenous constitutionalism.

You are cordially invited to register for this event by using the form below. This event is open to the public.

Professor Raymond A. Atuguba is currently the Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, where he has taught since 2002. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law and the Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Harvard Law School (2018–2019), and has taught over 40 related courses at several universities in Africa, Europe, the United States of America, Canada, and Australia. His research interests are in constitutional and administrative law in the global south; law and development in Africa; and human rights and community lawyering. Among his many publications, he has contributed a chapter to The Routledge Handbook of African Law.