Anthony C Diala – Faculty of Law

July 26, 2023

CLIA director speaks at Leiden University

The director of the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, Prof. Anthony Diala gave an invited presentation at the Leiden Law School, The Netherlands on 7 June 2023. The presentation is titled “The concept of living customary law revisited.”

July 11, 2023

A butterfly that thinks itself a bird: The identity of customary courts in Nigeria

Over the past 600 years, African states have been subjected to powerful influences of globalisation such as the slave trade, colonialism, transcultural exchange, and the law and development movement.

July 11, 2023

Are Africans ready for integrated state and indigenous laws?

In 1956, Doris Stenton published The English Woman in History. According to her, the Norman Conquest of 1066 ended the egalitarian social status of Anglo-Saxon women and ‘introduced into England a military society’ that made women ‘essentially unimportant’ (p. 348).