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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Relationship of International Law and National Law in Africa |
Author: | Gonidec, P.F. |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | African Journal of International and Comparative Law |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 244-249 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | conflict of laws international law Law, Human Rights and Violence international relations |
External link: | https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/afjincol10&id=256&collection=journals&index=journals/afjincol |
Abstract: | A brief survey of African practice with respect to the incorporation of international law into the national legal order and the settlement of conflicts between a rule of international law and a rule of national law indicates that the African solutions to the problem of relations between international law and State law are neither very original nor innovative. In only a few States of Africa is international law automatically part of the law of the land. When there is a conflict between these two kinds of rules, there is a tendency to consider that the constitution is supreme. |