Team Members
About Us
The African Society of International Law (AfSIL) wants to bring novelty as part of the constellation of organisations concerned with international law. AfSIL is above all an African Society and it is a truism that is worth reiterating. Thus, to build a firm foundation in Africa is its main objective. With regard to recruitment, The AfSIL invites all internationalists, sons/daughters of the continent to join it, whether resident in African countries or elsewhere, without exclusion or discrimination.
This emphasis on Africanness, however, does not mean confinement. The AfSIL aims to gather the best lawyers of all nationalities, who desire law, justice and peace in Africa and the recognition of the dignity of all Africans as a source of satisfaction and perhaps of profit.
The advent of this Society represents a break with the tradition: its aim is to promote African specificity in international law by mobilising and strengthening our skills. The African expertise exists; it deserves to be more widely recognised.
The African expertise exists; it deserves to be more widely recognised.
AfSIL Bureau
Our Mission
To explore, develop and showcase international law talent and opportunities in Africa by providing a platform for students, practitioners, scholars and technocrats to engage in purposeful and deliberate activities and events channeled towards the Society’s main objectives
Our Objectives
Contribute to the development and building an expertise of African international law doctrine which expresses the point of view of African specialists in international legal debate and contributes to enhance the knowledge of African International Law of the authorities of codification and international jurisdictions Enable African students in the field of international law to gain an early sense of belonging to a scholarly community in this field, to have the opportunity to come into contact with African and non-African scholars with an established reputation in the field, and develop their knowledge by attending seminars and other activities of the AfSIL.
News
21 September 2021
AfSIL’s Vice-President Tafadzwa Pasipanodya has been appointed a member of the ICC Africa Commission and will serve a three-year mandate, running from 2021-2024.
August 2021
AfSIL’s President Makane Moïse Mbengue has been elected as member of the Institute of International Law.
20 April 2021
DRC v. Uganda | Public hearings before the International Court of Justice on the question of reparations in the case concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo have started today.
7 April 2021
Gabon v. Equatorial Guinea | The International Court of Justice fixed the Memorial and Counter-Memorial filing deadlines in the case concerning Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands.
September 2020
AfSIL’s Secretary General Isabelle Rouche has joined African International Law Firm Asafo & Co. as partner in the Litigation and Arbitration practice.
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African Society of International Law Switzerland
c/o Prof. Makane Mbengue
ADDRESS
Université de Genève, Faculty of Law
40 boulevard du Pont d’Arve
1211 Geneva 4. Switzerland
Tanzania
c/o Amne Suedi
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ADDRESS
Jangid Plaza (Unit 402). Plot No. G6 Kinondoni Municipal
Chaburuma Street
P.O. BOX
P.O. Box 23037, Dar es Salaam