Publication: Can OHADA Increase Legal Certainty in Africa?
Date
2011-01
ISSN
Published
2011-01
Author(s)
Beauchard, Renaud
Kodo, Mahutodji Jimmy Vital
Abstract
This paper describes the origins,
structure, and practical impact of the Organization for the
Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA). It analyzes
the institutional framework created via the OHADA treaty and
the legal, jurisprudential, and functional challenges that
OHADA member states are still grappling with. Details of the
nine substantive laws that have so far been ratified as
uniform acts by means of the treaty have also been provided.
The authors conclude that in making OHADA law effective,
member states face continuing and substantial resource
deficits, institutional deficiencies, language ambiguities,
and intransigent official attitudes toward the need for
appropriate mechanisms for the pursuance and enforcement of
OHADA laws and processes.
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Citation
“Beauchard, Renaud; Kodo, Mahutodji Jimmy Vital. 2011. Can OHADA Increase Legal Certainty in Africa?. Justice and development working paper series;no. 17. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18322 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”