Tag: New Voices
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Explaining Improbable Cases of Judicial Independence: The Example of Uganda
–Johanna Kalb, Loyola University, New Orleans In a recent editorial in the Daily Monitor, law professor Busingye Kabumba of Makerere University in Kampala describes the country’s 1995 Constitution as “essentially an illusion.”[1] While the first article of the Ugandan Constitution gives “[a]ll power to the people,” Professor Kabumba suggests that the shared perception among Ugandans is that “all power belongs to the President, who exercises his sovereignty through the army.”