The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780192896179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str.

Dagbanja

Recenzje

Combining a novel and ambitious theoretical framework (the 'Imperatives Theory') with detailed case-study analysis (focusing on Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa), the book questions the capacity of the developmental state in Africa to perform dutifully the role international economic law prescribes for it. The book challenges mainstream conceptions of what the state is for, whose interests it serves, and how best to understand the limits of its legal authority, and with it, the limits of international law - precisely by invoking (and then pushing on) their most conventional premises. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners of international economic law interested in the effect and legality of international investment treaties in Africa and beyond, the book's powerful arguments open up compelling new horizons for thinking in the field.

O autorze

Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja is a Senior Lecturer (International Investment Law) at The University of Western Australia Law School; Research Fellow, African Procurement Law Unit, Department of Mercantile Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and Associate Director of Community Engagement of UWA Africa Research and Engagement Centre. He was an Investment Policy Consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester Law School and Lecturer in Law at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja has published extensively in International Investment Law and Public Procurement Law and Policy in reputable peer-reviewed international law journals including: African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Cambridge Law Review, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Public Procurement Law Review, Transnational Corporations and Transnational Legal Theory.