The Centre for Community Law (CFComLaw) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing knowledge of ECOWAS law and oceanic law across West Africa. Through research, public education, policy engagement, and its peer-reviewed academic journal, CFComLaw works to ensure that ECOWAS frameworks become a living reality for the citizens, institutions, and coastal communities they are designed to serve. CFComLaw holds observer status with the International Seabed Authority under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
PRESS RELEASE Justice EdwardAmoakoAsante, the immediate-pastPresident of the ECOWAS Court of Justice(ECCJ),has been nominated to Ghana’s Supreme Court.Hecompleted three...
By Paul Ejime* From the wholesale changes to its leadership architecture at the just-concluded mid-year Summit in Freetown, Sierra...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ushered in a new era of leadership with the appointment...
The Authority of Heads of State and Government has confirmed the recommendations of the Ninety-Sixth Ordinary Session of the...
ByChidi Anselm Odinkalu* The history of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) parallels the country’s political evolution. It began in...
By Marc Weller* International law does not permit any country to appoint itself ‘guardian’ of other states’ rights and...
By Paul Ejime* Ahead of the ECOWAS Summit in Freetown on Sunday 19 July, Guinea-Bissau’s two main opposition political...
By Paul Ejime* In addition to the obnoxious apartheid system practised by the white minority population in South Africa,...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu* Courts are creatures of law. Everything about them, including what they can do (jurisdiction) and...
