Legal reception in the AU against the backdrop of the monist/dualist dichotomy
Abstract
The relationship between international and domestic law is traditionally
viewed through the lens of the monist/dualist dichotomy. While monists
view international and domestic law as two sides of the same coin and
therefore see no need for the reception of international law into national law,
dualists hold the opposite viewpoint. The monist and dualist schools rely on
their construction of the relationship between international and domestic law
to prescribe how/how not reception should take place. Interestingly, neither
of the two schools pays much attention to the role the nature of the
international law to be received should play in how the reception of such law
takes place. It is the main aim of this article to investigate whether the nature
of international law should influence how it is received into domestic legal
systems at the African Union level.
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