Compliance with International Human Rights Law in Africa Essays in Honour of Frans Viljoen

This collection of essays in honour of Frans Viljoen shines a light on the increasingly important place of compliance in international law. With essays from leading scholars in the field of international human rights law, this festschrift provides compelling analysis of the nature of compliance in the African human rights context, the challenges that affect its place in these legal systems, and the ways in which increased compliance can be achieved.

The volume is divided into three parts exploring: theoretical perspectives, thematic perspectives, and institutional perspectives. Each in turn helps to build a picture of theory and practice charting the historic developments of human rights law with several case studies to illustrate. Contributors provide detailed comparison with other national legal systems, such as the Inter-American IACHR and Court, placing these reflections in their global comparative context. The work concludes by considering the ways in which challenges can be overcome to achieve increased compliance with international human rights law in Africa.

Compliance with International Human Rights Law in Africa is not only a work to honour the contributions of Frans Viljoen but is also an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, in the field of international human rights law.

Romola Adeola is a Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

1. Introduction, Romola Adeola
2. Compliance studies and the African Human Rights System: Reflections on the State of the Field, Japhet Biegon
3. Beyond compliance: do decisions of regional human rights tribunals in Africa make a difference?, Victor Ayeni
4. Compliance with the prohibition of the Death Penalty in Africa, Lilian Chenwi
5. Compliance beyond anniversaries: the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (Kampala Convention) in domestic laws and policies, Romola Adeola
6. Legitimacy as a challenge to compliance with the norms on the protection of children in Africa, Remember Miamingi
7. Member States' Compliance with the Recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Lirette Louw
8. 'Horizontal' compliance with decisions of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, Adem K. Abebe
9. Enforcing compliance with the judgments of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights: Prospects and challenges, Tarisai Mutangi