For many years, the African regional human rights system has been, with few exceptions, largely neglected in Spanish legal scholarship. Due to various factors, such as Spain's membership in the Council of Europe and its cultural ties with Latin American countries, the European and American human rights systems have garnered the attention of academics in our country. Therefore, writing a doctoral thesis on the African human rights system is a particularly commendable undertaking. And that is precisely what Juan Bautista Cartes Rodríguez, Professor of Public International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid, has done under the supervision of Professors Ana Gemma López Martín and José Antonio Perea Unceta. The quality of his thesis is evidenced by the fact that it was awarded the Jaime Brunet Prize (2022) by the Public University of Navarre, given to the best thesis of the year in the field of human rights. This monograph in English, funded by the Jaime Brunet Foundation, stems precisely from this award, and joins two other monographs in Spanish by the same author on this subject, published by the prestigious publishers Aranzadi and Tirant lo Blanch.
