Dean, USPA Law School.
Vice Chancellor, University of Africa.
Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University, School of Law.
It is with great pride and genuine anticipation that we welcome readers to the maiden issue of the Afrika Law Review.
The Review is born of a simple conviction: African legal scholarship deserves a visible, rigorous, and sustained home, one that both honours the diversity of legal experience on the continent and connects that experience with global scholarly conversations. Based at Fordham University in the United States, the Afrika Law Review seeks to be precisely that forum: a place where cutting-edge research, practitioner insight, and the lived realities of courts, legislatures, and communities meet and inform one another. To those ends, the Review will publish rigorously peer-reviewed articles and will host an annual symposium to surface and debate pressing legal challenges facing the continent.
The Review is possible because of collaboration. Fordham Law School’s long engagement with Africa, through faculty, students, and a committed African alumni community, provides an invaluable foundation for this project. We are equally thrilled to announce our official publishing partnership with Fordham University Press. FUP’s editorial expertise, distribution network, and commitment to academic excellence will ensure that the Review reaches a broad North American and international readership and that the work we publish meets the highest standards of scholarship and production.
Our Editorial and Advisory Boards bring together an exceptional range of perspectives and experience from across the continent and the global academy. We are grateful to the scholars, judges, and practitioners who have joined this endeavour to help ensure the Review’s intellectual rigour and practical relevance.
We invite submissions that engage critically with legal problems, that advance new frameworks or empirical evidence, and that reflect the complex realities of law in Africa today. Details on submissions, including the call for papers and submission procedures, are available on our website.
Finally, we extend our thanks to everyone who has supported the Review’s launch, from our institutional partners to our colleagues and peers across the continent and beyond. We look forward to a lively exchange of ideas and to building, together, a lasting platform for African legal thought.
Warm regards,
Paolo Galizzi
Managing Editor, Afrika Law Review
Leitner Center for Intl. Law & Justice, Fordham Law School
Ernest Kofi Abotsi
Founding Editor, Afrika Law Review
Dean, USPA Law School
Soloman Ebobrah
Founding Editor, Afrika Law Review
Vice-Chancellor, University of Africa Toru-Orua
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