© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2013 DOI: 10.1163/15723747-00902003 International Organizations Law Review 9 (2012) 383–449 brill.com/iolr INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS LAW REVIEW he African Court of Justice and Human Rights: A Judicial Curate’s Egg Gino J Naldi a & Konstantinos D. Magliveras b a) Researcher in International Law, Great Britain gnaldi@hotmail.com b) Associate Professor, Department of Mediterranean Studies University of the Aegean, Greece kmagliveras@rhodes.aegean.gr Abstract he present article analyzes the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, the proposed “main judicial organ of the African Union”. he African Court of Justice and Human Rights is meant to replace the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and would therefore constitute a unique international judicial body combining the jurisdiction of the judicial organ of an intergovernmental organization with the jurisdiction of a regional human rights court. It shares features of the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In a highly contentious move detrimental to the role of the International Criminal Court, it is currently proposed to extend its jurisdiction over international crimes, the deinition of which goes much further than that currently accepted by the international community, raising the prospect of conlicting obligations. he Court’s governing instruments are too ambitious and contain some signiicant laws and the case for doing away with the now operational African Court of Human Rights and Peoples’ Rights seems unconvincing. Even though the Court has not yet been established, its structure and mandate do pose many challenging questions that deserve to be thoroughly investigated by drawing comparisons with the existing similar judicial organs in other international organizations. Keywords African Union; judicial organs of intergovernmental organizations; African Court of Justice and Human Rights; international criminal law * After 30 years in academia Dr Gino Naldi is currently an independent researcher in Public International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has developed a spe- cialism in these ields relating to Africa and to the Organization of African Unity/African