This paper argues that African Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are flexible legal regimes. As flexible legal regimes, African RTAs provide a forum for cooperation on a whole range of objectives, including trade liberalization. They nestle or nest within these regimes an entire range of other...

This paper examines the Right to Development (RtD) in the context of the ongoing negotiations to finalize Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are signing with the European Union (EU). These EPAs are being negotiated within the Cotonou...

This article regards the problem of access and affordability of drugs to impoverished consumers. The article first explores the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) consistent possibilities which balances the interests of the pharmaceutical companies and consumers, and...

This article provides new insight to regime shifting and regime complexes through one of the first detailed analysis of the regime shift in intellectual property law making and enforcement from the World Trade Organization to international investment law. Unlike prior cases of regime shifting...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all facets of human relations on a magnitude not witnessed in the post-World War II era. Due to the interdependence of countries in the international system, it is not surprising that the unfolding public health crisis has had significant ramifications for the...

Third world citizens — parties who often have the most to lose in natural resource contracts between their governments and foreign investors — often have no voice in negotiations of the contracts and consequently have no remedy under contract law when harms occur or when the contracts are...

This paper focuses on the lawmaking power of the Financial Accounting Task Force, (“FATF”) as an international organization and how its work is now being consolidated by being incorporated within the G20's framework for global financial reform. FATF reform therefore constitutes an end run...

These Keynote Remarks were prepared for the Santander Roundtable Discussions on International Economic Law, co-hosted by Kenyatta University School of Law, (Nairobi); Riara Law School, (Nairobi); and the International Investment Law Center, at University of Cologne, January 13, 2021. The main...