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Cross Border Dispute Resolution under AfCFTA: A Call for the Establishment of a Pan-African Harmonised Private International Legal Regime to Actualise Agenda 2063*
Orji Agwu Uka (the author of this piece) is a Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice NG & Company, Lagos. He holds a Masters’ Degree in International Business Law from King’s College London and an LLB from Abia State University, Uturu Nigeria. Introduction Over three score and ten years ago, Professor G. […]
How Chinese Courts Tackle Parallel Proceeding Issues When Offshore Arbitration Proceeding Is Involved?
(The following case comment is written by Chen Zhi, a PhD candidate at the University of Macau? The parallel proceeding is a long-debated issue in International Private Law, by which parties to one dispute file two or more separate dispute resolution proceedings regarding the same or similar problems. Such parallel proceedings will increase the cost […]
Nigeria and AfCFTA: What Role has Private International Law to Play?
Written by Abubakri Yekini, Lecturer at Lagos State University, Nigeria. The idea of economic integration is not new to Africa. It is a phenomenon that has been conceived as far back as the 1960s when many African countries gained independence. In 1980, the Organisation of African Unity (now African Union) came […]
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Trade, Law and Development: Call for Submissions
Posted at the request of Shiva Patil, Technical Editor at Trade, Law and Development. Trade, Law and Development Call for Submissions Special Issue “Sustainability and Inclusivity: Evolving Paradigms of the Global Economy” Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development (TL&D) has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues […]
Out Now: Briggs, Private International Law in English Courts, 2nd edition
In 2014, Adrian Briggs published his own comprehensive account of English Private International Law, taking stock of centuries of English case law and decades of growing European influence. Other than the author’s unique ability to present even the most complex concepts with both clarity and style, the book’s strongest selling point arguably was his conscious […]