Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa

The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa is a legal, normative, and principled framework for rethinking the making and reform of investment treaties, and investment disputes settlement.

List of contents

• 1: The Intersection of Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration and Public Interest Regulation in Africa


• 2: Reclaiming Regulatory Autonomy from the Investment Treaty Regime in Africa: The Imperatives Theory


• 3: The Legal Status and Limitations on Investor-State Arbitration in Africa


• 4: The Environment, Human Rights and the Investment Treaty Regime in Africa


• 5: The Right to Development, Development Policy-making and the Investment Treaty Regime in Africa


• 6: The Necessity, Making and Reform of Investment Treaties and Investor-State Arbitration in Africa

About the author

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.

Summary

The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa is a legal, normative, and principled framework for rethinking the making and reform of investment treaties, and investment disputes settlement.

Additional text

Dr Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja's book is a trailblazer in this subject area, and provides a solid base for future research on the protection of the fundamental rights of the people and the environment in Africa, and across the 'Global South', vis-à-vis the exercise of governmental power in investment treaty-making.

Product details

• Authors: Dagbanja , DAGBANJA, Dominic Dagbanja, Dominic (Senior Lecturer in Law Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari (Senior Lecturer in La Dagbanja
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780192896179
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289617-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: International Economic Law Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Africa, LAW / International, LAW / Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Treaties, LAW / Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, mediation & alternative dispute resolution, Investment Treaties & Disputes, International economic & trade law, Arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources, Public international law: economic and trade