The seminar will be organised around the following subjects:

Preliminary chapter: African law or law in Africa? Definitions of law, its essence, modes of formation and specificities according to different legal systems.

Chapter 1: Historical, economic, political and social factors of contemporary African legal and financial systems. Influence on these systems of customary law, colonisation, domestic political, economic, socio-cultural factors on the one hand and international, especially international capitalism on the other hand.

Chapter 2: African legal and financial systems. African constitutionalism, land issues, investment and financial systems, regional organisations.

Chapter 3: Evolution of African legal and financial systems and influence of globalization on this process. Since the 1980s under the pressure of Bretton Woods institutions (WB and IMF), many African countries started "structural adjustment" programs which led to the emergence of new legal and financial systems in order to protect the interests of international capitalism and emphasized the process of destruction of African countries' sovereignty.

Chapter 4: Struggle of African people through civil society and regional organizations against the maneuvers of international capitalism. African States' attempts to protect their interests in the negotiations of GATT and with the EU Commission (prolongation of the Cotonou's Agreement)