Analytics On The Operation Of The Law Of ECOWAS

ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) was founded in1975.In order to promote social and economic harmony, stability and development,ECOWAS has made many laws and rules. However, because of the ideologicalvariety among different states and the limitation of multiple identities, the executionof those laws and the construction of legal environment in ECOWAS have beenseriously restrained. Meanwhile, the contradiction between ECOWAS’s courts andmember states’ judicial organizations are increasing day by day, and so the effect ofthe laws’ execution has been confined.The establishment of the ecowas reflects the thinking in west Africa with thedevelopment of regional integration trend, ecowas regional cooperation advantagesthis system, to promote members’ economic cooperation more frequently, moreprosperous economy, has made potential into reality institutional defects. Ecowaswithout a strong backing to ensure each obligation subject to implement ecowas lawcontent, the mechanism of implementation is weak. Because the law directly affectthe economic benefits, so how to solve the problem of ecowas law enforcement isvery worthy of our thinking.In this paper, the writer tried to discuss the relationship between the ECOWAS’slaws and the member states’ laws, and demonstrate the legislation and developmentexperience in EU (European Union) and in the OHADA (Organization for theHarmonization of Business Law in Africa). With the dynamic comparison ofECOWAS with EU and OHADA, it is expected to obtain more helpful and valuablethings from the development of EU and OHADA, in order to promote thedevelopment of ECOWAS and put forward law proposals for ECOWAS. In this part,demonstration starts from the subject’s source and significance. The whole paper’sstudy purpose, method, thinking train and main contents are briefly introduced, andthe deficiency of this paper is pointed out. The second chapter is the fundamental ofthe paper’s argument. ECOWAS laws’ nature and effectiveness are firstly introducedand then conflict between ECOWAS’s laws and member states’ laws are discussed. Inthe third chapter, the basic conflicting problems of ECOWAS’s laws execution inmember states, and the priority problem when conflict occurs are elaborated. Thefourth chapter is the comprehensive conclusion and comment about ECOWAS’s laws application achievements and shortcomings, and the last is the peroration, giving myopinion about how to coordinate two different level laws better.Based on Legislation,judicature and law enforcement system relevant theory, this paper presents specificperfection proposals and these proposals are expected to promote laws’ all roundexecution in ECOWAS.