Adjovi Writes about African Court’s First Ruling

By Purnell T. Cropper | January 15, 2010

Roland Adjovi, Academic Director of Arcadia’s Nyerere Centre for Peace Research and Centre for East African Studies in Arusha, Tanzania, recently published on op-ed Forum article commenting on the first-ever judgment by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in both Jurist, newsletter of the University of Pittsburgh Law School and Sentinelle, the weekly newsletter of the French Society for International Law. “Jurist Guest Columnist Roland Adjovi of Arcadia University in Arusha, Tanzania, says that to gain and maintain credibility in the wake of its first judgment, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights should streamline its policy rationale and procedure, thereby expediting its decision-making process….” Read more.