This article discusses the legal regimes for enforcing foreign arbitral awards within the East African Community (EAC). It focuses specifically on the enforcement of awards from partner states as well as from the East African Court of Justice (EACJ), which, although a supranational court, has jurisdiction to accept parties’ designation to act as an arbitral tribunal. The EAC has not yet developed a supranational community law based regime for enforcing foreign arbitral awards. The current dominant regime for enforcing such awards is the New York Convention. The article examines how the convention has been applied in the partner states and discusses aspects of the existing jurisprudence that demand reconsideration. It examines the suitability of applying the convention regime to awards from the EACJ, and the case for harmonizing the legal regimes for enforcing foreign arbitral awards within the EAC.

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东非法院、外国仲裁裁决的执行和东非共同体一体化进程

本文讨论了在东非共同体 (EAC) 内执行外国仲裁裁决的法律制度。它特别关注伙伴国和东非法院 (EACJ) 裁决的执行，该法院虽然是一个超国家法院，但有权接受当事方指定为仲裁庭。EAC 尚未制定基于超国家共同体法律的制度来执行外国仲裁裁决。目前执行此类裁决的主要制度是《纽约公约》。本文研究了该公约如何在伙伴国适用，并讨论了需要重新考虑的现有判例的各个方面。它审查了将公约制度适用于 EACJ 裁决的适用性，