Browsing Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM) by Author "Ojwang, JB"
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Changing constitutional trends in Africa: Kenya's experience, 1963-1996
Ojwang, JB (1997)Constitutional law, being mainly concerned with the allocation and management of power, must ultimately derive its essential character from the elements of the social formation. In the case of Kenya, attempts in the 1960s ... -
Constitution: critical issues in the current review process
Ojwang, JB (1998) -
Constitutional Trends in Africa-The Kenya Case
Ojwang, JB (Univesity of NairobiSchool of Law, 2000)The relevance of the theme," Constitutional Trends in Africa," is to be appreciated in the first place with regard to the interplay between international law and municipal law—this relationship itself makes a case for ... -
Constitutionalism - in classical terms and in African nationhood
Ojwang, JB (1990)Perceptions of a cardinal role for constitutionalism in African governmental practice raise questions about the possible universality of the common Western ingredients of that notion. African constitutional practices, which ... -
The failure of the centralized state: institutions and self-governance in Africa
Ojwang, JB (1991) -
The Judiciary in Sensitive Areas of Public Law: Emerging Approaching to Human Rights Litigation in Kenya, Netherlands international Law at 29-52 (co-Author)
Odek, James; Ojwang, JB (School of law, 1988)Restrictions imposed by domestic law do not excuse a State from due performance of international legal obligations. Either in observance of this principle, or as a sheer coincidence, most States have a framework of domestic ... -
Kenya's current constitution-making initiative: some thoughts
Ojwang, JB (1998) -
Kenya's place in international environmental law initiatives
Ojwang, JB (1993) -
Legal and Institutional Regime for the Management of Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems in the IGAD Member Countries, with Special Reference to Kenya
Ojwang, JB (2001)Drought and desertification constitute the most severe limitations to effective utilisation of natural resources and thus socio-economic development in the countries of Eastern Africa. Ojwang' says that, the criteria for ... -
Legal Education in Kenya
Ojwang, JB; Salter, DR (1989)Legal education in Africa has attracted and will continue to attract the attention of scholars. An important reason is that African countries have enjoyed sovereign statehood for only a comparably short time, during which ... -
The Legal Profession in Kenya
Ojwang, JB; Salter, DR (1990)The legal profession, and legal education (which is the subject of an earlier article), in operational terms form one continuum. On the earlier occasion we depicted legal education as, in essence, referring to “experiences ... -
Legislative Control of Executive Power in Africa: New Insights
Ojwang, JB (1986)Constitutional lawyers seem to have left to political science the question: What is so re- pugnant about power itself, as to justify unending restraint efforts? We should briefly re- vert to this issue, as a basis for ... -
Philippe Sands, Principles of international environmental law
Ojwang, JB (1997) -
Property rights and the Constitution: the position of aliens in Kenya
Bhalla, RS; Ojwang, JB (1990)This study exemplifies the relationship, commonly found in developing countries, between the domain of public law and the sphere of property law. More particularly, the study examines the place of aliens in Kenya with ... -
The protection of innovations and inventions in Kenya: the patent system
Ojwang, JB (1989) -
The rule of law in general and Kenyan perspectives
Ojwang, JB; Kamau, Kuria. G (1975)Introduction - The Diceyan school - The new school Kenyan perspectives (the criminal law; security law; the security law and individual rights: some illustrations) -
Rural dispute settlement in Kenya
Ojwang, JB (1975)This paper considers certain basic interactions in rural Kenya through the processes of law and dispute settlement: Introductory - Conflict settlement in the traditional period - The colonial period: new developments in ... -
Woman-to-woman marriage: a cultural paradox in contemporary Africa's consitutional profile
Ojwang, JB; Kinama, Emily Nyiva (2014)The promulgation of several new Constitutions in Africa came with a paradigm shift in the official perception of second generational rights. For example, the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 enshrines the right to culture and ...