Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2010
Rights
Abstract
This is a review of Jeremy Levitt’s edited collection of chapters in Africa: Mapping the Boundaries of International Law, which is an impressive work to the dearth of scholarship on Africa’s contribution to the normative substance and theory of international law. The book explicitly seeks to counter the racist mythology that Africans were tabula rasa in international law. In his own introduction to the book, Levitt makes it clear that “Africa is a legal marketplace, not a lawless basket case.” The eight contributors to the book are renowned scholars who make the case that Africa is not stuck in pre-history – that the continent has been an active participant in making and humanizing international law in diverse areas such as human rights, women’s rights, international humanitarian law, democracy theory, and international criminal law, among others.
Publication Title
American Journal of International Law
First Page
532
Last Page
538
Recommended Citation
Makau w. Mutua,
Jeremy I. Levitt's Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law,
104
Am. J. Int'l L.
532
(2010).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_reviews/44