Olufemi Amao is currently Senior Lecturer at the Sussex Law School, University of Sussex. He was previously a lecturer at Brunel Law School, the director for Undergraduate Studies, Brunel University, London, and a lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law: Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2011).

• 1. Introduction 2. The development of the concepts of African law and African Union law 3. Ascertaining the sources of African Union law: a needle in a haystack? 4. Membership of the African Union 5. African economic and business law: green shoots in the new economic legal order 6. Peace, security, the rule of law and African Union law 7. Human rights in the African Union law 8. Economic, social and cultural rights and group rights in the African Union law 9. Custom, morality and African Union law: the case of sexual orientation in Africa 10. Enforcement of African Union law 11. ConclusionsAppendix 1 Constitutive Act of the African Union Appendix 2 Protocol on Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union

Olufemi Amao is currently Senior Lecturer at the Sussex Law School, University of Sussex. He was previously a lecturer at Brunel Law School, the director for Undergraduate Studies, Brunel University, London, and a lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law: Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2011).

• 1. Introduction 2. The development of the concepts of African law and African Union law 3. Ascertaining the sources of African Union law: a needle in a haystack? 4. Membership of the African Union 5. African economic and business law: green shoots in the new economic legal order 6. Peace, security, the rule of law and African Union law 7. Human rights in the African Union law 8. Economic, social and cultural rights and group rights in the African Union law 9. Custom, morality and African Union law: the case of sexual orientation in Africa 10. Enforcement of African Union law 11. ConclusionsAppendix 1 Constitutive Act of the African Union Appendix 2 Protocol on Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union

Olufemi Amao is currently Senior Lecturer at the Sussex Law School, University of Sussex. He was previously a lecturer at Brunel Law School, the director for Undergraduate Studies, Brunel University, London, and a lecturer at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law: Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2011).

• 1. Introduction 2. The development of the concepts of African law and African Union law 3. Ascertaining the sources of African Union law: a needle in a haystack? 4. Membership of the African Union 5. African economic and business law: green shoots in the new economic legal order 6. Peace, security, the rule of law and African Union law 7. Human rights in the African Union law 8. Economic, social and cultural rights and group rights in the African Union law 9. Custom, morality and African Union law: the case of sexual orientation in Africa 10. Enforcement of African Union law 11. ConclusionsAppendix 1 Constitutive Act of the African Union Appendix 2 Protocol on Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union