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Informal laws and state law in the horn of Africa
No full textThis essay examines the relationship existing between informal law and state laws in the four countries of the Horn of Africa from an historical and comparative perspective. Such relation is considered from the time when the four countries became independent, however reference is also made from time to time to the colonial background when necessary to justify a particular situation. The analysis casts also an eye to the relation existing between religious laws and state laws, as religious laws represent an essential component in the interaction between state laws and the other normative orders present in these four countries. The essay concludes with some recommendations for the improvement of such relationship
Law & food : regulatory recipes of culinary issues
No full textContributions to the Juris Diversitas conference on "Law and Food" - Lyon, France - 201
The Language of Law and Food: metaphors of recipes and rules
No full textThis book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify rules, norms, or prescriptions of all kinds. The links between law and food are as old as the concept of law. Many authors have been using such links in creative ways to express specific features of law. This is because the language of food and cooking offers legal thinkers and teachers mouth-watering metaphors, comparing rules to recipes, and their combination to culinary processes. This collection focuses on this relationship between law and food and takes us far beyond their mere interaction, to explore different ways of using these two apparently so diverse elements to describe different phenomena of the legal reality. The authors use the link between food and law to describe different aspects of the legal landscape in different areas and jurisdictions. Bringing together metaphors and indirect correlations between law and food, the book explores different models of approaching legal issues and considering different legal challenges from a completely new perspective, in line with the multidisciplinary approach that leads comparative legal studies today and, to a certain extent, revisiting and enriching it. With contributions in English and French, the book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of law and food, law and language, and comparative legal studies
La Chine en Afrique et les mouvements d'intégration juridique africains
No full textL'articolo descrive l'influenza del modello gculturale, giuridico e dottrinale cinese nei movimenti di integrazione giuridica african
L’allargamento dei BRICS e l’Africa: sfide e prospettive
Full text linkThe BRICS enlargement and Africa: challenges and perspectives - This essay intends
to highlight the first outcome of the BRICS enlargement operated in 2024 with reference to the African context. In particular, it analyzes of the BRICS Plus (BRICS+) alliance may affect the dynamics in the African geopolitical situation and the possible consequences on the main issues involving the African BRICS+ members. Specific attention is dedicated to the legal framework of the BRICS+ members and the possible developments on the functioning of the Legal Forum platform. Some first conclusions are finally drawn as a possible way forward for the Africa-BRICS+ relations
African Law(s)
No full textThe book presents a critical rethinking of the study of law in Africa from a comparative law perspective and proposes a new approach on how to consider law in Africa. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical perspectives in comparative law, especially for studying African law, arguing that they are too eurocentric to fully catch the peculiarities and characteristics of the African “lawscape”. The common thread of the present work is that of consider law in Africa from a different perspective. The aim of the proposed approach is to demonstrate that the African legal culture can be considered at the same level of the Western one, so that – being deeply rooted in the culture of the African people – it may have a proper space in the future policy making decision relating legislative development in Africa. The argument is that the Western and the African approach to law should be combined in a collaborative perspective to create a new, interactive approach to legal pluralism in Africa that puts the African legal culture at the center of the African “lawscape”
Lawscapes
Full text linkComparative law is a subject always in motion. Scholarly discussion about its meth- odology is always vivid, in search of better tools to make the different possible com- parative endeavors. The paper explores the concept of lawscape and its link with comparative legal methodology. The concept of lawscape will be linked with other relevant concepts in comparative law, like those of legal pluralism, legal transplants, legal formants and legal fluxes to make the necessary connections and find its space within the tools of comparative law
Land Law in the Eritrean State
No full textLand tenure is a fundamental and – at the same time – very sensitive issue in Africa. This is a common denominator in almost every part of the continent, and Eritrea is not an exception in this regard. The paper illustrates the development of land law in post-independence Eritrea, from the beginning of the development of the Eritrean legal system to the newly issued (but not yet in force) Civil Code. While illustrating the different developments of land tenure in Eritrea, the paper intends to show how traditional law continues to be the reference point for Eritreans with reference to land management, despite any legislative attempt to set it aside
The crime of consumption of alcoholic beverages in the Somali Penal Code
No full textSomalia is a Muslim country whose criminal law has been based on the 1930 Italian penal code to which some changes have been made to try to adapt it to the local context. One of these changes has been to introduce the crime of consumption of alcoholic beverages, a crime that anyway could be committed only by local Somali people due to their religious belief. This chapter analyzes this part of the Somali penal code trying to highlight the issues arising from the text of the law. The analysis is compared to the regime existing in the other Muslim African countries to understand similarities and differences with the Somali regulation. A conclusion is then drawn up also in view of a possible future reform of the code by the new Somali state in taking also into account the federal structure that the state has now after its re-emergence from the collapse which happened after the fall of Siyaad Barre
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