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B.A. (Guelph), LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), M.St. and Chevening Scholar (Oxon); Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; formerly the Legal Advisor to the Office of the Principal Defender, Special Court for Sierra Leone and Associate Legal Officer in Chambers, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. E-mail: jallohc@gmail.com. Elena Baylis, Jules Lobel, Joseph Rikhof and Bill Schabas kindly read a draft of this article and gave excellent feedback. Alhagi Marong, Godfrey Musila and Janewa Osei-Tutu read earlier versions. I thank them all, as well as Viviana Waisman and Alan Cantos for inviting me to present this paper at the July 2009 human rights course organized by Judge Baltasar Garcón at Complutense University (Madrid, Spain). I also acknowledge Jacqueline Lipton and Mike Madison for facilitating a stimulating faculty workshop on this topic in October 2009 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Ohio, U.S.A. Last but not least, thanks to Linda Tashbook, and my assistants Amy DiBella and Nidhi Kaura, all of whom provided superb research assistance. Of course, all opinions and errors are mine.
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Jalloh, C.C. Universal Jurisdiction, Universal Prescription? A Preliminary Assessment of the African Union Perspective on Universal Jurisdiction. Crim Law Forum 21, 1–65 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-010-9115-z
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