The objective of this two-week Summer Academy on African Union Law and the Public Law of Africa is to provide the participants with a better knowledge of the history, content and specificities of this normative system. It aims to provide a deeper understanding of the collective practices and attitudes of international law. African States towards international law. The course will consist of lectures delivered by leading African scholars, judges and practitioners of international law and African Union Law. The lectures will analyse various legal instruments which derive from and aim at developing the principles upheld by the African Union and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity. Altogether, the lectures will offer a concise and clear picture of the normative system devised to realize the objectives of these Pan-African organizations, which reflect the innermost aspirations of African peoples.