Appointment of constitutional adjudicators in Africa: some perspectives on how different systems yield similar outcomesFootnote

¹Part of the research for writing this paper was carried out during my period as a fellow in the South African Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, in September 2013.

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