'African Union Law': Creativity in Norm Generation to Solve African Problems

非洲联盟法的开创性概念（为本项目的目的暂时定义为直接和间接适用于非洲联盟成员国的条约、决议和决定的机构）目前尚未得到充分探索和发展。然而，它有可能成为具有深远影响的开创性研究。该网络倡议将探讨非盟法律作为一种新的法律秩序的出现及其对该区域现有法律秩序的影响。拟议的网络是多学科的，具有不同学科的见解，包括法律、历史、社会、政治、经济、社会学和人类学方面。因此，它是一个与非洲人后裔相关的核心艺术和人文研究领域，但也对非洲大陆的未来具有重要的实际意义。这一概念对非洲大陆、其组成成员国以及在非洲和散居各地的非洲人民具有重要和可能根本的影响。无可争辩的是，非洲大陆存在着特有的具体问题。这些棘手的问题范围广泛，包括缺乏和/或滥用法治、侵犯人权、童工、现代奴隶制、腐败、种族和性别歧视以及环境退化。非洲联盟及其机构作为一个标准的产生机构的想法，类似于欧盟（但有自己的独特之处），不仅是新颖的，而且是在寻求集体解决非洲大陆广泛问题和问题的必要话语。该网络将利用英国非洲裔学者和研究人员的可用性，以丰富辩论。它将汇集来自政策、实践和学术背景的非盟法律相关领域的领先专家。与实践相关、以证据为导向的重点将使网络参与者能够发挥能力建设的影响。通过提供对非盟法的新贡献，该网络将为现有的研究人员以及这一快速发展领域的下一批研究人员提供一个平台。据设想，该网络还将导致在英国和整个非洲开发非盟法新课程，从而创造一个新的学生、研究人员和专业知识库。该网络还应促进同非洲各主要机构建立持久的关系。

The pioneering concept of African Union Law (provisionally defined for the purpose of this project as the bodies of treaties, resolutions and decisions that have direct and indirect application to the member States of the African Union) is currently underexplored and underdeveloped. However, it has the potential to be ground-breaking with far reaching implications. This Network initiative will explore the emergence of AU law as a new legal order and its implications for existing legal orders in the region. The proposed Network is multidisciplinary, with insights from different disciplines including legal, historical, social, political, economic, sociological and anthropological dimensions. It is thus a core arts and humanities research area that is relevant to the people of African descent but also has significant practical implications for the continent going forward. The concept has important and potentially radical implications for the African continent, its constituent member States and its people in Africa and in the diaspora. It is indisputable that there are specific problems that are peculiar to the African continent. These intractable problems are wide ranging and they include absence and/ or abuse of rule of law, human rights violations, child labour, modern slavery, corruption, racial and gender discrimination and environmental degradation. The idea of the African Union and its institutions as a standard generating institution, similar to the EU (but with its own unique features) is not only novel, but a necessary discourse in the search for collective solutions to these wide ranging problems and issues across the continent. This network will leverage on the availability of academics and researchers of African descent and on Africa in the UK in order to enrich the debate. It will bring together leading experts in areas related to AU Law from policy, practice and academic backgrounds. The practice-relevant, evidence-led focus will enable the Network participants to develop capacity building impacts. By offering new contributions on AU Law, this Network will provide a platform for existing researchers and also for the next cohort of researchers in this rapidly developing field. It is envisaged that the Network will also lead to the development of new curricula on AU Law in the UK and across Africa thereby creating a new pool of students, researchers and expertise. The Network shall also facilitate the establishment of an enduring relationship with key institutions in Africa.