Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
Edited by Charles M. Fombad and Nico Steytler
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Edited by Charles M. Fombad, Professor of Law, University of Pretoria, and Nico Steytler, South African Research Chair in Multi-level Government, Law and Policy, University of the Western Cape
Charles M. Fombad is Professor of Law and leads the African Constitutional Law Unit at the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the University of Pretoria. He has taught at the University of Botswana, the University of Yaoundé II, and was visiting Professor at the Universities of Dschang and Buea in Cameroon. From 2003 to 2007 he was also a Professor Extraordinarius of the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of South Africa. He is the author of several books and a member of the editorial board of a number of international journals. He is currently a vice-president of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He is also a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests include comparative African constitutional law, media law, and the African Union and legal history, especially legal harmonization.
Nico Steytler holds the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute of Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, at the University of the Western Cape
Contributors:
André Thomashausen, Attorney-at-Law, Frankfurt High Court and Professor Emeritus of International and Comparative Law, University of South Africa.
Balingene Kahombo, Fellow, Berlin Potsdam Research Group.
Christa Rautenbach, Professor, North-West University.
Christophe Van der Beken, Associated Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Ghent University, and Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University.
Conrad M. Bosire, Lecturer, Strathmore University Law School-Nairobi and Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of the Western Cape.
Jaap de Visser, Director of the Dullah Omar Institute.
Jan Erk, Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.
Joseph Hengelela Cihunda, PhD candidate, University of Kinshasa.
Kofi Quashigah, Dean and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ghana.
Musa Njabulo Shongwe, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Eswatini.
Rotimi T Suberu, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Bennington College.
Sherif Elgebeily, Researcher, International Association of Constitutional Law.
Tinashe Chigwata, Senior Researcher, Dullah Omar Institute.
Yash Ghai, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, University of Hong Kong.
Yonatan Fessha, Associate Professor of Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape.
Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele, Director of the Centre for Federal and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University.
