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Costs in International Arbitration: Are Changes needed? – Ola Nagy & Orji Uka

Introduction One challenge of cross-border dispute settlement is how to balance the compet...

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Double Hatting in International Arbitration: Time to close the Revolving Door? – Amanda Nerea and Ronald Mutasa

This topic could not be more befitting, or intimidating, in the context of being a topical...

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Commentary on ICSID’s New Rule Proposals by Cherie Blair CBE QC and Sophia Louw

Introduction In August this year, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Di...

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LCIA exits Mauritius and a new MIAC emerges by Duncan Bagshaw

Between 2008 and 2011, the London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”) entered into...

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In Defence of Arbitration: A Review of the Court of Appeal’s Landmark Decision in Mekwunye V Lotus Capital Limited & Ors. by Victor C. Igwe

Introduction In April 2018, the Court of Appeal[1] handed down a decision which has the p...

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Colonialism And International Arbitration: Looking Toward Africa by Philip W. “Whit” Engle, FCIArb

Colonialism is a funny thing, because even when it is supposedly gone, its influences ling...

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Jumping on the TPF Bandwagon: Nigeria’s New Arbitration Bill Embraces Third-Party Funding by Abayomi Okubote and Prof. Joshua Karton

The past few months have witnessed several momentous developments for international arbitr...

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Somalia’s Accession to the WTO by Jonathan Lim and Burak Eryigit

With the longest coastline in mainland Africa, bordering the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Eden...

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New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Angola Accession by Tatiana Serrao

On 6 March 2017, Angola deposited its instrument of accession to the New York Convention o...

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Arbitration in Africa Survey Report – Summary by Isaiah Bozimo

Between December 2017 and February 2018, SOAS University of London and the firm of Broderi...

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