The regulation of mergers that go beyond national borders within the European Union (EU) common market has its origins in the adoption of the Council Regulation 4064/89 of 21 December on the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings (Regulation 4064/89). Regulation 4064/89 was as a result...

Competition policy regime in Africa is developing at a heightened speed as countries establish and strengthen both their legal and institutional framework. This calls for continuous legal education, research and development in competition law and policy for competition lawyers and practitioners...

Innovative technologies trigger changes that threaten current markets, social as well as political orders; and the once conservative and exclusive legal market is no longer immune. The increasingly informed tech-savvy client base, the unbundling of legal services, online service delivery, and...

The dream of establishing an African common market that would lead to an African Economic Community begun in the 1980s, when the Lagos Plan of Action for the Economic Development of Africa was adopted. The establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which came into force on...

The discovery of oil and gas in Kenya in 2012 by Tullow Oil provide a great opportunity to Kenya to position itself as an economic hub. However, the discovery comes with a number of challenges ranging from lack of capacity, political activism, and weak revenue collecting system, corruption,...

The issue of addressing cross-border competition enforcement has recently come into sharp focus. In order to address cross-border competition enforcement, Africa has established a number of regional competition regimes which presents a number of opportunities and challenges. This paper focuses...

There has been calls from various organizations and key policy makers arguing that, countries must adopt effective trade policies and measures that should seek to maintain the trade during the COVID-19 pandemic. So what is the way forward for Africa? This paper briefly discusses the role...

Economic law – the focus of this new journal – has enabled and shaped the phenomenal, extremely dynamic, yet also highly uneven development of markets in Africa in recent years. It also is called upon to “govern” those markets and to ensure that individually rational behavior by economic...

Global advances have changed teaching, access to resources and interaction in many ways. In particular, ‘technological advances have further transformed both the practice and teaching of law’. Despite the technological changes, generally, as I have argued in my article, the legal...

This paper is the first – theory-setting – building block of a broader project on the challenges the transition to an algorithmic society poses in a developmental context. The aim of the overall project is to unearth the day-to-day enforcement hurdles algorithmic and data-driven business...