International Law in Namibia Dunia P. Zongwe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zongwe, Dunia P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law--Namibia.

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

This book provides readers with the knowledge necessary to fully understand how international law carved the history and life of Namibia. It observes that Namibia has benefited from and contributed to international law in a way that shaped that country's political and socio-economic development and to an extent that few other countries experienced. For many a year since Namibia achieved Independence on 21 March 1990 and established the Faculty of Law at the University of Namibia in 1992, students and lecturers have relied on materials from South Africa, despite the fact that Namibian law has since then grown apart from its South African heritage. It is high time for lecturers and students in Namibia to teach and learn with a textbook that analyses international law from the distinct standpoint of Namibia and that views the nation's legal interactions with other states through its own prism! And this textbook aims to do just that. Through its 19 chapters, this book informs readers about international law, its sources, international treaties, Namibian statehood, dispute resolution, the use of force, human rights, Namibia's economic relations with the outside world (including the Southern African Customs Union), and the law of the sea. Namibian courts have in their own way followed the rules of international law scrupulously, but--as this book shows--international law nonetheless remains the source of Namibian law that lawyers apply the least. Accordingly, this book underlines the significance, the practical utility, and the relevance of international law in the unique Namibian context.

Contents:

Introduction

What international law is

The European roots of modern international law

Sources of international law

International law in the Namibian legal system

How Namibian courts apply international law

Treaties and their Interpretation

States and Namibia's long march to statehood

Recognition of states and governments

Territory

State responsibility

Dispute resolution

Immunity

The United Nations, peace and the use of force

African Union

Human rights

Economic relations and SACU

Law of the sea

Namibia, child of International Law

Annex 1. The mandate for South West Africa

Annex 2. Resolution 435 (1978) on Namibia's independence

Annex 3. Principles concerning the Constituent Assembly and the Constitution for an Independent Namibia (1982).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956550814

9956550817