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East African Community Law

The Scope, Nature and Effect of EAC Law 139 John Eudes Ruhangisa 4A The Scope, Nature and Effect of EU Law 161 Armin Cuyvers 5 External Relations and the EAC 182 Leonard Obura Aloo 5A External Relations and the Eu 196 Armin Cuyvers 6 General Principles Governing EAC Integration 202 Khoti Chilomba Kamanga and Ally Possi x preface The main challenges facing the EAC today in this regard are how to safeguard the quality of the increasing body of Community law, how to monitor compliance, and how to make EAC law binding and enforceable within national legal systems. All of these are challenges that the EU has faced in the past and is still facing, and where both the success and the failures of the EU may be of comparative use to the EAC, certainly considering the many similarities in the institutional and legal framework of both and the similarities of the challenges faced. The main purpose of this book, initiated by the Leiden Centre for the Comparative Study of EAC law (LEAC) in close cooperation with Hon. Justice Dr Ugirashebuja, the current President of the East African Court of Justice, is to be a source of information and education for all those involved in shaping, improving and studying integration in the EAC. By comparing each aspect of both institutional and substantive EAC law with its nearest counterpart EU law, we hope to have created a vital tool to better understand and move forward the integration process in East Africa. Considering these aims, we are proud that, thanks to the generous support of the law firm Allen & Overy LLP, the European Union and the Europa Institute of the University of Leiden, this book will not just be available in printed form but will also be freely available online via a completely Open Access agreement with Brill Publishers. We have been fortunate to find excellent authors from the different EAC Partner States, all leading experts in their respective fields, enabling us to cover all legal aspects of the EAC. We are very grateful for their wonderful contributions and constructive participation in this ambitious project. In addition, we have greatly benefitted from the excellent research and editorial assistance provided by Ties Boonzajer Flaes, Louise O'Callaghan, Brenden Fourie, Timothy Kawira, Carlota de Paula Coelho, and Merel Valk, as research assistants of the LEAC. We are much indebted to them for, among other things, ensuring consistency between the chapters. As always, however, responsibility for the final product remains with the authors and editors.