The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has been in transition for several years now. The locus of this transition has been an attempt to merge the Court with the African Court of Justice, created in 2003, into a single judicial institution. Established slightly over a decade ago by a...

The article provides a critical analysis of what it calls the ‘ESC rights thesis' as advanced by Louise Arbour in a much-noticed paper published in 2007 – the claim that economic, social and cultural rights (such as the right to food, housing, healthcare, education) should be treated as an...