African Legal Systems
Objectives
The aim is to prepare future jurists for a better multidisciplinary understanding of the composite legal systems present in Africa. The plural jural systems and this very pluralism are always portrayed and touched upon within the general framework of the role of the State in Africa.
General characterization
Code
33127
Credits
Available soon
Responsible teacher
Available soon
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 0
Teaching language
PT
Prerequisites
Not Applicable
Bibliography
Not Applicable
Teaching method
The regime is that of a seminar. Participatory classes, with an opening section which is given “ex catedra”,a second that involves twenty minute presentations by students on the class’s topic (based on the bibliography made available to them, and written under my direct supervision), then followed, in a third segment, by a discussion, among all present, moderated by me.
Evaluation method
Seminar
Subject matter
African legal systems and the comparative study of legal systems. Legal pluralism: diversity, policentrality, and hierarqies. Portuguese colonial law in Africa. The new African States and their multiple normative orders. The inventiuon of traditions. The impact of the type of the jural system inherited by the colonizing power. The status of “traditional legal systems” in the Portuguese ex colonies in Africa. Formal models and concrete practices. Politics and law. The Programme of the discipline touches, in detail, some of specifically multidisciplinary topics in what concerns contemporary law in African lusophone countries.