This chapter interrogates the need to formulate a Pan-African investment court. The European Union (EU) is already pushing forward the idea of an Investment Court System (ICS) to replace the traditional approaches to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)

This book contributes to a growing body of research on International Investment Law reform models by examining and providing empirical evidence on the regulatory approaches and treaty making practices in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region. This is an eight-country trade...

Precise predictions about the possible and plausible future shape of international investment law, and International Investment Agreements (IIAs) in particular, are impossible to make. But what this text evidences is the need to see the object and purpose of provisions (in their broadest sense)...

This book encompasses theoretical and empirical analysis of takeovers and their relationship with society and the State in a rapidly changing social and commercial landscape. It assesses the experience of those affected by the process of law, for example employees who may find themselves...