Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law / Hakeem O. Yusuf.
2010
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Title
Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law / Hakeem O. Yusuf.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Call Number
KTA470 .Y87 2010
Former Call Number
Nig 220 Y92 2010
ISBN
9780415575355 (hbk.)
0415575354 (hbk.)
9780203851753 (ebk.)
0203851757 (ebk.)
0415575354 (hbk.)
9780203851753 (ebk.)
0203851757 (ebk.)
Description
xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)449888551
Note
"A GlassHouse book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-199) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Foreword
xi
Introduction: transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
1
1.
The case for judicial accountability in transitions / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
7
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
7
State powers and the judiciary / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
8
The judiciary in authoritarian contexts / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
12
Judicial accountability and rule of law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
13
The case for accountability of the judiciary in transitions / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
14
Judicial independence / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
17
Judicial immunity / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
22
The judiciary as victim / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
23
Judging the judges? / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
25
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
27
2.
Truth, transition, and accountability of the judiciary / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
33
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
33
The judiciary and accountability for the past [—] the truth commission as an unlikely forum / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
34
Transition, truth and accountability in Nigeria / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
40
The context / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
40
Wither accountability of the judiciary? / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
42
The Dele Giwa petition: truth-seeking and the judiciary in Nigeria's transition / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
44
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
45
3.
Political change and judicial reform: an international' and comparative perspective / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
50
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
50
Judicial reform [–] the international context / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
51
A comparative perspective / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
55
Central and Eastern Europe: political change, courts and constitutionalism / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
56
Institutional transformation sans accountability? The case of Nigeria's National Judicial Council / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
61
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
64
4.
Judicial accountability in political transitions the Nigerian context / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
68
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
68
The transition judiciary: a legal premise for accountability / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
69
The accountability gap / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
72
Legal-Jurisprudential dimension / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
74
Legitimizing military rule / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
74
Imperatives of popular sovereignty / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
77
Socio-political dimension / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
79
Corrupt and compromised / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
79
Public apathy for due process of law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
80
Unacknowledged victims? / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
82
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
84
5.
Rights, the judiciary and constitutionalism in transitions / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
90
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
90
Judicial review in the Nigerian court system / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
92
Backwards with plain-fact jurisprudence: the Oputa Panel care / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
93
The facts, the decision / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
93
Between executive failure and judicial complacency / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
94
Again, the ride of kw dilemma / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
96
The judiciary, transition and the transformative agenda / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
97
Safety in a cocoon: ignoring international human rights law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
100
Privileging domestic law over international law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
102
Policy considerations and transitional justice claims / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
103
Two decisions and the purposive approach: hopes for transformation? / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
107
The PDP case: when death is not to die / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
107
A Lacuna, a Formidable Minority and a Slim Majority / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
107
Breaking away from tradition / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
109
The ICPC case: Federalism v Commonweal / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
110
From the doldrums of infamy / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
110
'Policy united' all the way / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
113
Validity of purposive jurisprudence in Nigeria's transition / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
115
Displacing formalism in transitional contexts / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
115
Deepening the rule of law in transitional contexts / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
116
Beyond provincialism / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
118
Peace, order and good governance to the rescue / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
118
Discordant tunes / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
119
Ambivalence or new directions? / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
119
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
121
6.
Transition and the judicialization of politics: dialectics of a phenomenon / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
128
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
128
Judicialization of politics, democracy and the rule of law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
130
Judicialization of politics and the counter-majoritarian argument / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
131
Judicialization of politics: an analytical framework / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
136
Comparative perspectives / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
140
A still-born constitutional court: legacy of a failed transition and judiciary / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
144
Court-packing versus judicial independence / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
145
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
149
7.
Courts to the rescue? The judicialization of politics in Nigeria / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
155
Introduction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
155
Democratic transition and judicialization of politics in Nigeria / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
156
The judiciary in institutional reconstruction / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
157
The Ladoja case: the Godfather versus the people / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
160
The socio-political background / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
160
Neither impeachment nor removal / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
160
Courts and the political question / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
161
Checkmating judicial impunity / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
163
The Obi Tenure case [—] speaking law to power / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
165
Towards a new constitutionalism / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
166
Timely intervention and checkmating electoral impunity / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
167
Ladoja (No. 2) [—] between sympathy and the law / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
169
No to tenure-elongation [—] the court is plain / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
169
The judge in the court of the people / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
170
Turning the tables? Politicization of the judiciary in Nigeria / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
173
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
177
Conclusion / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
183
Bibliography / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
188
Index / Professor Abimbola Olowofoyeku
201