Webinar

This Guest Lecture event is collaboratively organized by the Afronomicslaw Academic Forum and the Institute for African Women in Law.

A webinar presented by the IBA Poverty and Social Development Committee, supported by the IBA Academic and Professional Development, the IBA Access to Legal Aid Committee and the Human Rights Research and Education Center, University of Ottawa, Canada.

This webinar will discuss accountability in Kenya’s proposed debt swaps, with a focus on the case of In the Matter of the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC: Eugenia Wanjiru Gikonyo v The Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya (EACJ Debt Swaps Case). The case was recently filed at the East African Court of Justice, by Ms. Gikonyo and Afronomicslaw.

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.