130 Kabumba/Application of African Union (human rights) law in Uganda in position to shed light upon the reasons for leaning more strongly upon certain legal orders than others in the adjudication of the matters arising before them. It would also be interesting, and important, to replicate the assessment undertaken in this article in the context of other domestic systems in Africa, to obtain a fuller picture of the trends in this regard. This panoramic view of the trends of judicial reception of AU law within the member states of the Union – especially if accompanied by a comparative review in the style undertaken in this article – might also provide important insights into some of the issues under-explored in this very preliminary study. 6 CONCLUSION This paper has analysed emerging trends in the reception of AU law in the Ugandan judicial system, with the courts’ reference to EU law and African REC law being used as comparators. While AU law has had some impact in the jurisprudence of Ugandan courts, this has almost exclusively been in the area of human rights law, and even then, in a limited sense, tending towards mere citation of certain treaties and decisions as opposed to a more robust engagement with those authorities. On the other hand, EAC law and, surprisingly, EU law seem to have had a disproportionately significant influence upon the case law of Ugandan courts, not just in the areas of constitutional and human rights law, but also in the fields of more general commercial and civil litigation. The trends identified in this preliminary enquiry call for more detailed research, especially in two directions: i) identifying the trends in other African countries, as a means of obtaining a more general picture of the jurisprudential impact of AU law; and ii) exploring the reasons for the (under)performance of AU law relative to other legal orders in terms of its reception in the case law of domestic courts. The AU has a significant – and positive – role to play in terms of encouraging the development of a more progressive normative order on the continent. For this to happen, however, more work has to be undertaken, in terms of scholarship, activism and at the political and strategic levels. To this end, it is my hope that more scholars, especially those based on the continent, might be persuaded to engage in the critical work required in this regard, including through taking forward the analysis initiated in this exploratory study.