International Law in Post-Colonial Africa / / Tiyanjana Maluwa.

• Superior document: Studies and Materials on the Settlement of International Disputes Series ; Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Maluwa, Tiyanjana,
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague, The Netherlands : : Kluwer Law International,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies and materials on the settlement of international disputes ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- NOTE BY THE SERIES EDITOR -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- I. CREATING AND SITUATING INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 1. Custom, Authority and the Creation of International Law -- Introduction -- Custom as a Law-Creating Process -- Finnis's Account of Custom-Formation -- Concluding Observations: A Brief Interpretation of Finnis's Schema -- 2. Situating International Law in Municipal Legal Systems in Africa -- Introduction -- International Law and Municipal Law -- The Theoretical Issue -- English Common Law and Civil Law Approaches -- Constitutional Incorporation of International Law in Africa -- International Law and Constitutional Interpretation: A Southern African Perspective -- Conclusion -- II. PRE-INDEPENDENCE TREATY OBLIGATIONS AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE -- 3. The Newly Emergent State and the Devolution of Pre-Independence Treaties -- Introduction -- Malawi: A Post-Colonial Case Study -- Colonial Treaty Obligations and Third Parties: Theory and Practice -- Concluding Observations: Devolution of Treaty obligations in the Post-Colonial Era -- 4. Succession to Treaties and International Fluvial Law in Africa: The Niger Treaties -- Introduction -- The Pre-Independence Position -- Revision and Abrogation of the General Act of Berlin in 1890 and 1919 -- The Devolution of the Pre-Independence Niger Treaties upon the new Riparian States -- The Colonial Position -- State Succession and the Devolution of the Convention of St. Germain -- The Convention of St. Germain as a Dispositive Treaty and the Source of an International Servitude -- Article 1 of the Act of Niamey (1963): Abrogation of the Convention of St. Germain -- Conclusion -- III. HUMAN RIGHTS -- 5. Contextualizing Democracy and Human Rights in Africa -- Introduction -- International Human Rights Law: A Historical Note.

Sources and Content of International Human Rights Law -- Discourses on African Approaches to Human Rights -- Democracy and Rights -- Conclusion -- 6. Protecting Human Rights in the Constitution: The Case of Malawi -- Introduction -- International Law and Municipal Law in Malawi -- The Pre-1995 Constitution Period -- The Position under the 1995 Constitution -- (i) Custom -- (ii) Treaties -- Conclusion -- IV. REFUGEE RIGHTS -- 7. The Refugee Problem in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa -- Introduction -- Refugees, Peace and Security: Anatomy of the Problem -- Issues for Preliminary Consideration -- The Concept of a "Refugee": The Question of Definition and Approach -- Political Refugees and Economic Migrants: What's in a Name? -- Refugeehood and Citizenship -- Strategic Roots of Refugee Movements -- Refugee Movements as a Foreign Policy Tool of Sending States -- Refugee Movements as a Foreign Policy Tool of Receiving States -- The Dynamics of Refugee-Creation in Southern Africa -- Strategic Consequences and Security Implications -- Conclusion -- 8. Refugees, Law and Politics: The Evolution of Refugee Policy in Malawi -- Introduction -- The Legal Regime for the Protection of Refugees in Malawi, 1964 to 1988 -- Malawi's Succession to Pre-Independence International Refugee Conventions -- The Principle of Non-Refoulement as Jus Cogens -- The Application of the Principle of Non-Refoulement in Situations of Large-Scale Influx: Malawi's Approach -- Conclusion -- V. TERRITORY, SOVEREIGNTY AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- 9. The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes in Post-Colonial Africa: The First Two Decades -- Introduction -- The Principle of Peaceful Settlement -- The Commission of Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration -- The Practice Adopted by States -- Ad hoc Commissions and Solitary Diplomacy -- Conciliation -- Mediation.

The Issues of Confidence and Control -- Conclusion -- 10. Regulating the Common Utilization and Management of International Watercourses: The Senegal Regime -- Introduction -- The Pre-Independence Position -- Evolution of the International Legal Regime -- Regulation and Utilization of the Senegal Basin under the Bamako and Dakar Treaties -- (i) Navigational Use -- Freedom of Navigation: Meaning of the Term -- (ii) Extent of the Rights Granted -- Freedom of Traffic -- Entry into Ports and Commerce -- Non-Discrimination: Cabotage -- Exemption from Dues and Tolls -- Types of Vessels: Exclusion of Warships -- Territorial Scope of the Freedom of Navigation: Tributaries and Sub-tributaries -- Roads, Railways and Lateral Canals -- (iii) The Right of the State in Whose Waters Free Navigation is Granted -- Sovereignty -- Legislation: Jus Edicendi -- Integrated Development -- Navigational Uses -- Non-Navigational Uses -- The International Legal Regime of the Senegal under the Labé and Nouakchott Treaties -- Conclusion -- VI. IMPLEMENTING NEW INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 11. Southern African Land-Locked States and Rights of Access and Transit under the New Law of the Sea -- Introduction -- The Right of Access of Land-Locked States under International Law -- Can the Right of Access and Transit be Based on Customary International Law? -- The United Nations Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention -- The Right of Access as a General Principle of International Law -- Conclusion -- 12. Environment and Development in Africa in the 1990s: Some Legal Issues -- Introduction -- Some Definitional and Conceptual Issues -- The Right to the Environment and the Meaning of "Environment" -- The Right to Development and the Concept of "Sustainable Development" -- Environment and Development: the Conceptual Nexus -- Environmental Protection Legislation in Africa.

Selected Environmental Legislation -- (i) Constitutional and Institutional Machinery -- (ii) Population and Human Settlements Legislation -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- Bilateral Treaties Concluded by the United Kingdom and Other Parties Still in Force in Malawi -- INDEX -- INDEX OF CASES.