EAST AFRICAN LAW JOURNAL

The Research and Publications Committee of the Faculty of Law (University of Nairobi) publishes the East African Law Journal (EALJ). It includes articles, comments/notes, case analyses and book reviews on many aspects of national, comparative international law, especially the aspects that are relevant to the African region.

EALJ is now accepting contributions. Manuscripts must be in the English language and citations in footnotes. See Guidelines to contributors below for detailed citation style.

Contributions should be preferably be sent by email:

They may also be posted (both a hard copy, typed and double-spaced manuscript as well as a soft copy on a 3.5" diskette or compact disk using Word format) to:

Dr. Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Editor-in-Chief
East African Law Journal
University of Nairobi
Parklands Law Campus
P.O. Box 30197
00100 Nairobi

Guidelines for Contributors

All correspondence and other communications should be sent to the above address.

The submission must be original, and it must not already have been either published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts must be typed in times new roman, font 12, while footnotes should be in font 10. No other form of referencing, apart from footnotes, will be accepted.

Footnotes must be numbered consecutively. Footnote numbers should be in superscript without any surrounding brackets.

Articles should average between 6 000 and 10 000 words in words (excluding footnotes) in length; case analyses should be in 1 500 - 2500 words; comments/ notes should not exceed 3 000 words and book reviews should be between 500-1500 words.

Authors should indicate in the manuscripts their academic qualifications and professional status.

The following general style pointers should be followed:

• First reference to books: e.g. Shaw, MN (1991) International Law Cambridge: Grotius Publications 233.
• First reference to journal articles: e.g. Chigara, B "The Operation of the SADC Protocol on Politics and Defence in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (2000) 11 African Journal of International and Comparative Law 58.
• Subsequent reference to footnote in which first reference was made: e.g. Musembi & Kamingo (note 4 above) 305.
• Book Chapters: e.g. Flinterman, FG 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights' in Scriver, OS & McDonald, AS (eds) (1990) The United Nations and the Protection of Human Rights Rome: Kesweck Publishers.
• Websites should be cited as follows, for example: (accessed on 14 July 2004).
• Dates should be cited as follows: 23 July 2005.
• Acronyms should be written in full the first time and may subsequently be written in the abbreviated form: e.g. the East African Community (EAC).
• Self-made words should be in smart single quotes: e.g. 'solidarism'.
• Words in foreign language (supra, Ibid, status quo, locus standi, etc) should be italicised.
• Use UK English.
• Double quotation marks should be used; for a quote within a quote, use smart single quotes.
• Quotations exceeding 30 words should be indented half inch from the margins and in font 10, without any quotation marks.