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Constitutional Adjudication in Africa (Hardcover)
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Constitutional Adjudication in Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law
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Since the 1990 wave of constitutional reforms in Africa, the role
of constitutional courts or courts exercising the power to
interpret and apply constitutions have become a critical aspect to
the on-going process of constitutional construction,
reconstruction, and maintenance. These developments appear, at
least from the texts of the revised or new constitutions, to have
resulted in fundamental changes in the nature and role of courts
exercising jurisdiction in constitutional matters. The chapters in
this second volume of the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African
Constitutional Law series are the first to undertake a critical and
comparative examination of the interplay of the diverse forms of
constitutional review models on the continent. Comparative analysis
is particularly important given the fact that over the last two
decades, constitutional courts in Africa have been asked to decide
a litany of hotly-contested and often sensitive disputes of a
social, political, and economic nature. As the list of areas in
which these courts have intervened has grown, so too have their
powers, actual or potential. By identifying and examining the
different models of constitutional review adopted, these chapters
consider the extent to which these courts are contributing to
enhancing constitutionalism and respect for the rule of law on the
continent. The chapters show how the long-standing negative image
of African courts is slowly changing. The courts have in responded
in different ways to the variety of constraints, incentives, and
opportunities that have been provided by the constitutional reforms
of the last two decades to act as the bulwark against
authoritarianism, and this provides a rich field for analysis,
filling an important gap in the literature of contemporary
comparative constitutional adjudication.
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