African Economic Integration The Impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area

1. The 'Africanisation' of International Investment Law and the New Frontiers of Global Economic Governance

Makane Moïse Mbengue, Jędrzej Górski and Kehinde Olaoye

PART I Institutional Framework and Dispute Resolution

2. Institutionalism, ISDS and Investment Courts: a critical assessment of the dispute resolution mechanism under the AfCFTA Investment Protocol

Chrispas Nyombi

3. The Case for a Permanent African Continental Investment Dispute Settlement Tribunal

Mouhamed Kebe

4. Imperatives for Enabling Host State Citizen-Investor Arbitration in African International Investment Law Regimes

Emmanuel T Laryea and Dennis Ndonga

5. The AfCFTA and Intra-African Investment Disputes: A Special Focus on Lusophone Africa

Ernest Morales-Tonda

PART II: Investment Policies and Treaty Practices

6. Impact Investment & Sustainable Development: Rethinking the Definition of Investment in African International Investment Agreements - An Outlier Perspective

Opemipo Omoyeni

7. The Pan-African Investment Code as a Model for Negotiation on the Investment Protocol to the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area

Rose Rameau

8. Relationship between the SADC Investment Agreement and National Investment Laws of SADC Member States: Perspectives from the Democratic Republic of Congo Investment Code

Kilele Muzaliwa

9. Africa's Investment Treaty Practice with China: Are the Africa-China BITs Conducive to the Implementation of the AU Agenda 2063?

Gudrun Zagel

PART III: Sectoral Studies and Analyses

10. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: An Accelerator for International Commercial Arbitration in Africa

Thomas R Snider

11. Advancing the Green Agenda: Evaluating How the AfCFTA Protocol on Investment Impacts Environmental Protection.

Yasmin Sebah

12. Breaking New Ground on Food Security: Africa's Potential to Reframe Global Rules through the AfCFTA

Katrin Kuhlmann and Giovanni Dall'Agnola

13. Mining for Data Centres: Africa's Digital Single Market, Data Sovereignty and Resources-for-Infrastructure Investment Contracts

Dunia P. Zongwe

14. The Irony of Technology Transfer through Investment Protocol to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement

Malebakeng A. Forere

15. Copyright, the AfCFTA and the Heterogony of Ends

Emiliano Marchisio

Biography

Jędrzej Górski, MJur (Warsaw), PhD (CUHK) is an independent consultant in international trade, infrastructure, and government procurement policy and regulation. He has a diverse background in consultancy and research, also covering development finance, and the regulatory aspects of infrastructure and energy sectors. Dr. Górski conducted research at institutions, including the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Melbourne Law School, UCL Australia, and City University of Hong Kong. He also has prior experience with CMS Cameron McKenna LLP in Warsaw. His academic contributions include several co-edited volumes on international economic law and political economy, regional integration, as well as social license and energy transitions.

Makane Moïse Mbengue is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organization. He is also an Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po Paris (School of Law). He holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the University of Geneva. Since 2017, he is the President of the African Society of International Law (AfSIL). He is also an Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International and a Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law. He is a Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. 

Kehinde Folake Olaoye is an assistant professor of commercial law at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), College of Law, Qatar. Before joining HBKU, she was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. Kehinde obtained degrees in law from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, King’s College London and the University of Ibadan. She is qualified to practice law in Nigeria and worked as an international arbitration and dispute resolution trainee in the Hong Kong office of an international law firm.