This book introduces readers to the judicialisation of politics in Southern Africa (a phenomenon emerging over the last two decades) and provides the first transnational explanation for this development. It does so by focusing on recent changes in human rights norms based on fieldwork in three Southern African countries - Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana. Examining three recent court cases which involved involve international law, international courts and transnational NGOs, it looks beyond some of IR's established models to help explain why rights are often not legally clarifiable. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, human rights, and more broadly to international relations and international law and justice.