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A platform for future jurists interested in fine legal scholarship and research.
A novel way to create a new breed of African legal scholars.
A move that will put African legal materials online.
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Online Journal – Working Paper Series for Emerging Scholars
The Centre for Human Rights and Development will towards the end of 2009, launch an online publication titled Emerging Scholars Working Paper Series (ESWPS). This publication will feature articles written by law students from various universities across Africa, focusing on various areas of the law. The aim of this endeavour is to give budding scholars a platform to publish their well-researched, and peer-reviewed papers in the hope that this will strengthen their research skills. This publication has been necessitated by a lack of publication channels for scholars who have not yet graduated. It is hoped that this will stimulate a revival of fine legal scholarship and instill in our future jurists a sense of legal reform and development that they can take with them into the field. In the long term, it is envisaged that this online series will eventually become a legal journal dedicated to future jurists. The ESWPS will be published in electronic format only, due to fiscal constraints.
A panel of jurists and academics from across the continent will be responsible for moderating the papers submitted by students, and this panel will determine which papers are fit for publication. In this way, a new breed of African lawyers committed to fine legal scholarship will be created. The panel will consist of the following individuals:
Innocent Maja (Zimbabwe)
Maja is the Senior Partner of a Zimbabwean law firm styled Maja and Associates Legal Practitioners. He is also an IBJ Fellow for Zimbabwe, the Executive Director of Centre for Minority Rights and Development Zimbabwe, a Legal Director of the Anti-Piracy Organisation of Zimbabwe and sits on various Boards as a Trustee including Centre for Human Rights and Development Swaziland, Domboshawa Theological College Trust, Glory Givers International, The Mozambican Community in Zimbabwe Trust and Shiloah Zimbabwe Trust. He holds a Bachelor of Laws Honors Degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria and is currently pursuing an LLD. He is also a Lecturer in the Private Law Department with the University of Zimbabwe’s Faculty of Law.
Angelo Dube (Swaziland)
Dube teaches Administrative Law, Public International Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Swaziland. He has a strong research interest in areas such as forced evictions, disability rights, international criminal law, gender, environmental law, democratization, and the inter-play between indigenous legal systems and human rights. Dube holds law degrees from the University of Swaziland and the University of Pretoria, plus certificates in diverse fields such as arbitration, environmental law, socio-economic rights, international law, trade law and biotechnology. His work experience includes serving under Justice TH Madala at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Africa Office - Accra Ghana).
Anthony Diala (Nigeria)
Diala served the cause of human rights at the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Between 2004 and 2006, he worked in the Justice and Peace Commission, Nigeria. As Human Rights Programme Manager, he coordinated legal aid for hundreds of detainees, served on government and civil society policy committees, and taught human rights to students, law enforcement agencies and rights advocacy organisations. Diala also served as Awareness Committee Chairman on the Access to Justice (now Security, Justice and Growth) Programme of the DFID, British Council, Nigeria. An advocate of Nigeria’s Supreme Court since 2004, he is a visiting lecturer at the Law Faculty of the Enugu State University (Nigeria), a newspaper columnist, and a writer.
Christopher Mbazira (Uganda)
Dr. Mbazira is a lecturer in the University of Makerere in Uganda, where he teaches public International Law, Human Rights Law and Administrative Law. He is also an advocate of the Courts of Judicature in Uganda and acts as a legal consultant in a number of top law firms in Uganda. He holds a PhD in human rights law from the University of the Western Cape. He has published widely in the area of economic and social rights, human rights in Africa, governance and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development
Horace Adjoholoun (Benin)
Adjoholoun is a human rights lawyer from francophone Africa, originating from Benin. He holds a B.A. (NSA Benin 1998), an LL.B (Usam 2004), an M.Sc (Brussels 2005), and an LL.M in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa (Pretoria 2007). He is a lawyer and human rights expert, and currently serving as Research Fellow for the International Law in Domestic Courts Project (Universities of Pretoria and Amsterdam). He has worked with the Francophone Africa Supreme Courts Association on a judicial human rights protection program (2001-2006). His research interests include international human rights law in domestic courts, the ICC and states, corruption and the realization of socio-economic rights, national human rights institutions, human rights in Africa by the African Union, RECs and the United Nations.
A call for papers will be issued towards the end of August 2009 with all the details for contributors.
Centre for Human Rights and Development P.O. Box 477 Matsapha Swaziland
info@dignityfirst.org
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