Legal scholarship depends on access to primary sources — statutes, judgments, treaties — and to the commentary that makes sense of them. African legal research has a long tradition of open publishing, partly because commercial legal databases were never affordable and partly because the law belongs, in principle, to everyone it binds.
This hub covers constitutional and public law, criminal and security law, private and commercial law, and international law, with an emphasis on African jurisdictions and openly available case law.
Explore: 14 open-access journals in this field · Law & Legal Studies subject guide
Subfields: Criminal & Security Law · Legal Systems · Private & Commercial Law · Public & International Law
New open-access Law research for African scholarship — 6 African-led studies + 4 global breakthroughs, with journals cited.
FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Law (week of 27 June 2026) Read More »
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