Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henok Asmelash
Keyword(s):  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
African Development

The SADC Tribunal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Tendayi Achiume
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Decision ◽  
African Development ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Judicial Lawmaking

This chapter uses the trajectory of the Southern African Development Community (“SADC”) Tribunal to chart sociopolitical constraints on international judicial lawmaking. It studies the SADC Tribunal backlash case, which paved the way for a curtailment of the Tribunal’s authority, stripping the Tribunal of both private access and its jurisdiction over human rights. Showing how jurisprudential engagement with sociopolitical context plays a significant role in explaining the Tribunal's loss of authority, the chapter introduces the concept of sociopolitical dissonance. Sociopolitical dissonance is a state that results when a legal decision contradicts or undermines deeply held norms that a given society or community forms on the basis of its social, political, and economic history. Sociopolitical resonance, on the other hand, describes the quality of affirming or according with a given society's norms as informed by its sociopolitical history.

Recent Developments in the Regulation of Investor-State Dispute Resolution: Any Lessons for the Southern African Development Community?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 180-204
Author(s):  
Lawrence Ngobeni ◽  
Babatunde Fagbayibo
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
African Union ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
African Development ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract In 2016, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) amended Annex 1 of the SADC Protocol on Finance and Investment (FIP) in order to remove investor access to international arbitration or Investor-State Dispute Resolution (ISDS). The recent formation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (T-FTA) are factors that will likely curtail SADC’s ability to regulate foreign investments. Both AfCFTA and T-FTA are supposed to have their own investment protocols. This means that SADC faces the loss of regulatory authority over foreign investments. The recent formation of the Pan African Investment Code (PAIC) has shown that some African Union (AU) Member States want to provide ISDS for their investors, while others including SADC Members States do not. This article intends to evaluate the lessons SADC can learn from other jurisdictions in terms of the effective regulation of ISDS.

scholarly journals Single-use plastic bag policies in the Southern African development community

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 100029
Author(s):  
Joana Carlos Bezerra ◽  
Tony Robert Walker ◽  
C Andrea Clayton ◽  
Issahaku Adam
Keyword(s):  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
African Development ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
Single Use

scholarly journals A Case Study of Status and Potential of Small Hydro-Power Plants in Southern African Development Community

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 352-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Adu ◽  
Jinfeng Zhang ◽  
Yujian Fang ◽  
Lv Suoming ◽  
Ransford O. Darko
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
African Development ◽  
Hydro Power Plants
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