Acknowledgements). Specific mention should, however, be made of the pivotal role of the Court, and in particular, Dr Horace Adjolohoun. The further process involved the advisory participation of the International Advisory Board, and the Editorial Committee, spearheaded from the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. Following the call for papers, a number of authors were invited to develop full papers. These were subjected to a peer review process, culminating in the papers selected and edited for this publication. Frans Viljoen, for the Editorial Committee November 2017 xiv