Arbitration Fund for African Students (AFAS). To advance education in the knowledge, skills, techniques, use and methods of arbitration.
Investment laws ‘often’ include Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions and “international arbitration is the ISDS mechanism to which investment laws most often refer”, followed by domestic courts, mediation and conciliation.[1]
[Read more…] about THE RISE IN ISDS CASES
A field of law that governs relationships and resolves disputes between states and foreign investors is “International Investment Law.”1 This field approximately consists of 2896 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and 390 treaties with investment provisions (TIPs).2 The [Read more…] about International Investment Law and COVID-19
The state of the investment climate in Nigeria is causing a lot of anxiety. The reasons are not far-fetched, as it is, due to the high volume of petroleum exports, Nigeria is the largest trading partner in Sub-Saharan Africa, and equally seen as a potential investment hub. In order to maintain [Read more…] about Revisiting the Institutional Framework for International Investment Arbitration in Nigeria
On March 11th 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared the COVID-19 a pandemic after witnessing increasing spread of the disease across countries and continents at the same time1. At the time of this [Read more…] about Potential approach of arbitral tribunals to COVID-19 policy decisions by States
In early 2018, SOAS, University of London, published the SOAS Arbitration in Africa Survey 2018.1 The team was led by Dr Emilia Onyema. The thrust of the Survey was to address the perception that African arbitration practitioners were not competent and skilled enough to be [Read more…] about Perspectives on the SOAS Arbitration in Africa Survey 2020
