2011
X, 293 pp.
1 table, annex
Text language: English
After the publication in 2010 of Justice and Dignity for All – Current Issues of Human Rights in Tanzania, the editors are glad to present with Processes of Legal Integration in the East African Community the second publication by the Tanzanian-German Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Law (TGCL). The intention in regard to this series is to advance the dialogue and interaction between academia and practice, between East Africa and Europe, between law and other disciplines and between senior and junior lawyers. The central elements of the TGCL programme are human rights law, constitutional law and comparative law, focusing on the East African Community and its Partner States Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
This volume mainly resulted from two annual conferences of the TGCL and is completed by additional contributions. The first annual conference commemorated the tenth anniversary of the East African Community Treaty and the first anniversary of the TGCL. The conference took place on 4 September 2009 in Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam. The second conference took place on 4 October 2010 in the Julius Nyerere Lecture Theatre at the University of Dar es Salaam. The theme was legal pluralism in Africa and the integration of laws in the East African Community. This Volume contains the revised papers presented at these two conferences, supplemented by additional contributions on the legal historical background of the East African Community, the legal character of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community, and the right of access to land.
CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
Kennedy Gastorn / Harald Sippel / Ulrike Wanitzek: Introduction – Regional Cooperation and Legal Integration in East Africa
I. Multiple Sources of Law in Africa
Gordon R. Woodman: Multiple Sources of Law – A Threat to Constitutional Governance?
II. Towards East African Integration
Harald Sippel: Regional Integration in East Africa – A Legal Historical Overview
Juma V. Mwapachu: Ten Years of the East African Community – Achievements, Challenges and Prospects
Joseph Ochwada: Principles of Operation and Development Strategies in the East African Community
Sifuni E. Mchome: The Treaty of the East African Community – Is It the Equivalent of a National Constitution?
Kennedy Gastorn: The Common Market of the East African Community and the Right of Access to Land by Non-Nationals in Tanzania
III. The East African Court of Justice
Harold R. Nsekela: The Performance of the East African Court of Justice in Respect of Achieving Regional Integration
John E. Ruhangisa: Procedures and Functions of the East African Court of Justice
About the Authors and Editors
Annex
Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community 1999 (EAC Treaty)
Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Customs Union 2004 (EAC Customs Union Protocol)
Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Community Common Market 2009 (EAC Common Market Protocol)
In the series of the Tanzanian-German Center for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL) further paper collections have been published:
