January 8, 2024
Webinar Invitation: The Future of International Investment Law in Africa - A Conversation on Two New Books
(The Webinar is convened by the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law Chair at the Schulich School of Law and the Afronomicslaw Academic Forum)
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2024
Time: 5pm Nairobi; 3pm Geneva; 10am Halifax; 9am New York; 3pm Lagos
Zoom Link (Registration Required)
Afronomcislaw.org Academic Forum and the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law Chair at the Schulich School of Law are pleased to invite you to join this Webinar on The Future of International Investment Law in Africa - A Conversation on Two New Books.
The webinar brings two together the authors of two new books on the subject of international investment law in Africa and three expert panelists to interrogate thematic issues that arise from the books; their implication for contemporary practices of international investment law in Africa and beyond; and what insights we may draw on them for the future of the regimes on investment law in Africa.
The two books are: The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa (OUP, 2022) by Dominic N. Dagbanja; and Africa's International Investment Law Regimes (OUP, 2023) by Won L. Kidane.
Panelists:
Dominic N. Dagbanja - Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia School of Law
Won L. Kidane - Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu - Professor of Law, University of Saskatchewan College of Law
Kehinde F. Olaoye - Assistant Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law
Harrison Mbori - Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European, and Regulatory Procedural Law
Moderator:
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe - Associate Professor and Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law