Allan F. Tatham
Taking the Court of Justice of the European Union (especially its procedure of the reference for a preliminary ruling) as providing a suitable model to emulate for courts of other regional economic communities, the work will examine how the attraction of that model and its case law on integration in the EU has contributed to the development of judicial dialogue within these regional economic communities in Africa. The model’s evident utility for these Community courts has assisted them in their own tasks of interpreting Community primary and secondary laws as well as in furthering regional integration through judicial dialogue. This work will examine their pertinent case law instrumental in nurturing judicial dialogue with both national courts as well as with the Luxembourg Court, thereby showing elements of both horizontal and vertical transjudicial communication.
