Law, Politics and Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24901-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 765 g

Reihe: Brill

Law, Politics and Rights: Essays in Memory of Kader Asmal presents critical perspectives on various inter-related themes in the areas of human rights, constitutionalism, democracy, international law, political and cultural rights and identity. The discussions reflect the wide-ranging interests and subjects that Kader Asmal engaged with as a legal scholar, human rights campaigner and politician of international renown throughout his life.

Kader Asmal is perhaps best known for his political career as one of the most senior members of the African National Congress and a government minister in post-apartheid South Africa. Less well known to the general public is his equally immense contribution to international human rights law and policy, recognised with the award of the Prix UNESCO in 1983, through more than three decades of an international academic career and legal activism. This book is a reminder of the enduring relevance of the issues and causes he espoused and advocated.

Contributors include: John Dugard, Richard Harvey, Federico Lenzerini, Tiyanjana Maluwa, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Nsongurua Udombana, Muna Ndulo, Albie Sachs, Max du Plessis, Nico Steytler, Gerard Whyte, and Abdulqawi Yusuf.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maluwa, Tiyanjana

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: A Personal Tribute
Albie Sachs

Introduction
Tiyanjana Maluwa

PART I: Human Rights, Democracy and International Criminal Justice in Africa

1. The African Human Rights System for the Protection of Human and Peoples’ Rights: Pan-Africanism, Solidarity and Rights
Federico Lenzerini

2. Beyond Rhetoric: Ratification of African Human Rights and Human Rights-Related Treaties
Tiyanjana Maluwa

3. Who Blinks First?: The International Criminal Court, the African Union and the Problematic of International Criminal Justice
Nsongurua Udombana

4. Democratic Governance and Constitutional Restraint of Presidential and Executive Power: The Challenges in Africa
Muna Ndulo

PART II: Human Rights, the Constitution, Governance and Public Interest Litigation in South Africa and Ireland

5. The South African Human Rights Commission: A Holistic View
Obiora Chinedu Okafor

6. The Politics of Provinces and the Provincialisation of Politics
Nico Steytler

7. The Urgings of a Friendly Founding Father: Kader Asmal as Amicus Curiae in the South African Judicial Service Commission Case
Max du Plessis

8. The Efficacy of Public Interest Litigation in Ireland
Gerry Whyte

PART III: Right to Self-Determination, Cultural Diversity, and the Politics of International Law-Making and Solidarity

9. A Tale of Two Sacred Trusts: Namibia and Palestine
John Dugard

10. Shepherding the Conclusion of Complex International Conventions: The Role of the Chairperson in the Negotiations on Cultural Diversity
Abdulqawi Yusuf and Yuki Daijo

11. The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression and its Operational Guidelines
Souheil el Zein

12. Kader Asmal: Reclaiming Human Dignity through International Solidarity
Richard Harvey

Appendix: Professor Kader Asmal (1934-2011): Academic and Professional Qualifications and Appointments, and Selected Awards, Activities and Publications

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tiyanjana Maluwa holds the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law at the Dickinson School of Law of Pennsylvania State University, where he is concurrently Associate Dean for International Affairs of the Law School and Director of the School of International Affairs. Among his extensive publications is International Law in Post-colonial Africa (Kluwer Law International, 1999).