The genesis of the contemporary Ethiopian legal system
Keywords:
Ethiopia, legal systemAbstract
Jusqu'au XVIème siècle la législation dans l'Empire éthiopien était principalement fondée sur les règles du droit canonique, les commandements bibliques, et des éléments du droit coutumier. Il a fall au attendre l'apparition du premier écrit code juridique pour voir l’intégration du droit romain et byzantin dans la législation éthiopienne.
La codification du droit en Ethiopie, qui a eu lieu dans les années 1924-1933 et 1950-1960, a exigé des codificateurs l’application des législations des pays du monde occidental. Pour la création du code criminel et du code civil, on a utilisé les codes des pays dont la législation s’appuyait sur le droit romano-germanique, aussi bien que ceux des pays dont la législation reposait sur le droit anglo-saxon. Le texte ci-dessous tente de repondre à la question: à quelle famille juridique appartient la législation éthiopienne contemporaine?
References
Aberra Jembere, 1998, Legal History of Ethiopia, 1434-1974, Rot-terdam: Erasmus Universiteit, Leiden: Afrika-Studie-Centrum.
Bartnicki A., Mantel-Niećko J., 1978, Geschichte Äthiopiens. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart in 2 Teilen, Berlin: Akade-mie.
Clapham C., 1970, Haile-Selassie’s Government, London: Longman.
Constanzo-Beccaria, Giuseppe A., 1969, “Traditions, legislation and customary laws in Ethiopia”, in: Proceedings of the Third In-ternational Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa: In-stitute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellassie I University, p. 175-183.
Code civil de l’Empire d’Ethiopie de 1960. Edition française,1962, Paris: Libraire Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence.
“Civil Code of the Empire of Ethiopia. Proclamation no. 165 of 1960”, in: Negarit Gazeta, Addis Ababa 05.05.1960
David R., Brierley, J.E.C., 1978, Major Legal Systems in the World Today. An introduction to the comparative study of law, New York: The Free Press.
Ege, S., 1988, “The first Ethiopian cabinet: background and signifi-cance of the 1907 reform”, in: Taddese Beyene (ed.), Proceed-ings of the Eight International Conference of Ethiopian Stud-ies, vol. 1, Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Frankfurt am Main: Frobenius Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goëthe Universität, p. 351-360.
Glenn, H.P., 2010, Legal Traditions of the World. Sustainable Diversity in Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Glenn, H. P., 2005, On Common Laws, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Krzeczunowicz, G.,1963, “A New Legislative Approach to Custom-ary Law: the ‘Repeals’ Provision of the Ethiopian Civil Code of 1960”, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, vol. I, 1, p. 57-67.
Marein, Nathan, 1951, The Judicial System and the Laws of Ethiopia, Rotterdam: Royal Netherlands Printing and Lithographing Company.
Pankhurst A., Getachew Assefa (eds.), Grass-roots Justice in Ethio-pia. The Contribution of Customary Dispute Resolution, Addis Ababa: Centre Français d’Études Éthiopiennes.
Sand, P.,1980, “Roman Origins of Ethiopian >Law of the Kings/ Fetha Nagast<”, Journal of Ethiopian Law, vol. 11, p. 71-81.
Scholler H.,1976, “Ethiopian Constitutional Development”, in: Jahr-buch des öffentlichen Recht der Gegenwart, Band 25, p. 499-585.
Strauss, Peter L. (ed.), 1968, The Fetha Nagast. The Law of the Kings, Addis Ababa: Faculty of Law, Haile Sellassie I Univer-sity.
Taddese Beyene, Richard Pankhurst, Shiferaw Bekele (eds.), 1990, Kasa and Kasa. Papers on the Lives, Times and Images of Téwodros II and Yohannes IV (1855-1889), Addis Ababa: In-stitute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.
Vanderlinden, J., 1966, “An Introduction to the Sources of Ethiopian Law from the 13th to the 20th Century”, Journal of Ethiopian Law, vol. III, 1, p. 227-639.
Uhlig, S. Bausi A. (eds.), 2003-2010, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
Zweigert, K., Kötz, H., 1992, An Introduction to Comparative Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2012 University of Warsaw Press
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The SALC is a BOAI-compliant open access journal. The journal content is freely available on the journal website. All journal content appears on the licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of the first publication, the work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Authors are required to sign and send copies of Article Publishing Agreement and Fields of Exploitation statement prior to article's publication.