Domestic Legal Pluralism and the International Criminal Court: The Case of Shari'a Law in Nigeria

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
	Methodology
		The need for legal pluralism in ICL
		The current boundaries of legal pluralism in ICL
		Domestic legal pluralism in Nigeria
		Dynamics of mutual accommodation
	Chapter summaries
1 Pluralism in international criminal law
	Paradigmatic shift within ICL – involuntary unilateralism to voluntary treaty law
		International military tribunals of Nuremberg and Tokyo
		The ad-hoc tribunals of the United Nations
		The International Criminal Court
	Current legal pluralism scholarship in international criminal law
		Horizontal pluralism
		Vertical pluralism
	Third World approaches to international law
	Conclusion
2 Legal pluralism and Shari’a law
	Classical legal pluralism
	New legal pluralism
	The semi-autonomous social field of Shari’a law
	Islamic Shari’a law ( شريعة)
		The challenges posed by Shari’a law to legal pluralism
		Sources of Shari’a law
		Flexibility of the Shari’a
	Shari’a criminal law
		Hudud crimes
		Qisas crimes
		Ta’zir crimes
	Shari’a law and the ICC
	Conclusion
3 History of legal pluralism in Nigeria
	First critical juncture – colonial
	Second critical juncture – colonial
		Shari’a civil jurisdiction
	Third critical juncture – Nigerian Independence
	Fourth critical juncture – post-colonial
	Fifth critical juncture – the Fourth Republic
	Sixth critical juncture – mutual accommodation
		Common law inactivity
		Shari’a conformity
	Potential for the revival of subjugation – fragility
	Conclusion
4 Boko Haram and Shari’a violence in Nigeria
	Sectarian violence and the dynamics of subjugation and resistance
		Boko Haram and the 1999 legislations
	The continuing dynamics of common law subjugation
		The Terrorism Prevention Act
	Conclusion
5 The International Criminal Court in Nigeria
	The ICC situation in Nigeria
		Conclusion of Preliminary Examinations
		Complementarity
			Case: same person/same conduct?
	Domestic proceedings in Nigeria
	Shari’a prosecutions of Islamic terrorism?
		Shari’a criminal legislations
			Specific advantages of Shari’a proceedings
	Challenges
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	First finding
	Second finding
	Third finding
References
	Academic journals
	Books
	Book chapters
	Case law
		International
		Nigerian
	Internet sources
	Legislation
	International
	Nigerian
		Shari’a Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code as cited in Ostien, Philip, Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999–2006: A Sourcebook (Spectrum Books Ltd 2007) chapters 4, 5
	Magazines/News articles
	Reports
Index