A nexus-based model pro­posed for jur­is­dic­tion in Uganda

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Daniel R. Ruh­weza and Julius Ain­omu­gisha ana­lyse Uganda’s ap­proach to jur­is­dic­tion in private in­ter­na­tion­al law through the ten­sion between con­sti­tu­tion­ally framed “un­lim­ited jur­is­dic­tion”, stat­utory ter­rit­ori­al­ity and the in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ard of reas­on­able­ness. They argue that the ap­proach groun­ded in Art­icles 138 and 139 of the 1995 Con­sti­tu­tion cre­ates a “jur­is­dic­tion­al para­dox” in foreign-element dis­putes.