Arbitration Law and Practice in Africa
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Arbitration Law and Practice in Africa provides a practical and insightful country-by-country analysis of how arbitration is conducted in 11 African countries, including essential information about legislative provisions, treaty adherence, and arbitral procedure. Experts in the field deliver detailed commentary on the history and infrastructure of arbitration for their jurisdiction, as well as an analysis of the current law and practice covering key issues in arbitration. Together with their discussion of significant cases and an appendix of the relevant national legislation the reports are authoritative, but accessible, up-to-date and comprehensive. It is a must for practitioners and scholars alike and every party wishing to gain a solid footing in African arbitration.
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Angola
Agostinho Pereira de Miranda and Sofia Martins
Egypt
Mohamed Abdel Raouf
Kenya
Kananu Mutea and Paul Ngotho
Libya
Kamal Sefrioui
Morocco
Amin Hajji and Nadia El Baroudi-Kostrikis
Mozambique
Agostinho Pereira de Mirand, Filipa Russo de Sá and Ricardo Saraiva
Nigeria
Anthony Idigbe and Olapeju Anozie
Senegal
Aboubacvar Fall and Amadou Dieng
South Africa
Pierre Burger
Tunisia
Sami Houerbi
Uganda
Phillip Bliss Aliker and Michael Mafabi
APPENDICES
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ANGOLA
Law 16/03 of 25 July 2003 - the Voluntary Arbitration Law (VAL)
EGYPT
Law No. 27/1994 Promulgating the Law Concerning Arbitration in Civil and Commercial Matters
KENYA
Arbitration Act of Kenya 1995 (Amended 2010)
Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration Act 2013
MOROCCO
Official bulletin n°5584 of Thursday, December 6, 2007 Dahir n°1-07-169 1428 of 19 Kaada (30 November 2007) promulgating the law n°08-05 repealing and replacing the Chapter VIII of Title V of the Procedure civil Code
MOZAMBIQUE
Law No. 11/99 of 8 July 1999
SOUTH AFRICA
Arbitration Act 42 of 1965
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards Act 40 of 1977
UGANDA
The Arbitration and Conciliation Act
First Schedule: The Arbitration Rules
Second Schedule: Forms
About the Editors:
Professor Loukas Mistelis, LLB, MLE, FCIArb, is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution and investment treaty law. In 2006 he was listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration”, 45 under 45, amongst the top 15 highlighted members of the list, is listed on the Who’s Who Commercial Arbitration since 2007 and also a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators as well as the recipient of the GAR Award for best arbitration lecture of 2013. He is also listed as one of the Thought Leaders in International Arbitration.
Loukas Mistelis is the Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration and the Director of the School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He joined Queen Mary University of London in 1998 and became a professor in 2005. He was also Visiting Professor, NYU in London (2006-2012), a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University London program (2008-2011); he is Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2013); he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Law School (spring semester 2007), Visiting Fellow at NYU Law School (2012), Visiting Professor at Keio University, Tokyo (2008), LUISS, Rome (2009) and Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon (2007, 2009).
He is coordinating the LLM specialisation in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution. He teaches at the LLM programs in London and Paris and is the coordinator of the courses in International Arbitration Law and Practice II, Investment Treaty Arbitration and Investment Arbitration: Substantive Protection and also teaches on the International Commercial Law and International Energy Transactions courses. In Paris Loukas Mistelis teaches International Investment Dispute Settlement, Regulation and Infrastructure of International Arbitration and Applicable Law and Procedures in International Arbitration. Loukas Mistelis has also developed directs our Diploma in International Arbitration by Distance Learning, the Diploma in International Mediation (ADR) by Distance Learning and the Diploma in International Arbitration, which is offered by CCLS with accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Professor Mistelis was the Secretary of the CISG-AC (Advisory Council of the Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods) from 2001 to the end of 2007. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, an academic member of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a member of the Advisory Board of the EFILA (European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration) and a member of the Academic Committee of AIPN, Chair of Academic Committee of the Civil Mediation Council and President of the Court of CEDRAC (Cyprus Eurasia Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Centre).
Professor Mistelis was educated in Greece (LLB Hons Athens 1991); France (Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights, IIHR, Strasbourg, 1990); Germany (MLE, 1992, Law School, Hanover, Germany, 1998); and Japan (Certificate in Japanese international trade law, Law School, Keio University, Tokyo, 1998). He has been a member of the Athens Bar since 1993. He is fluent in English, German and Greek, and has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Russian and Spanish. Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) since 2001, became Fellow of the CIArb (FCIArb) in December 2016.
Laurence Shore became a Partner at BonelliErede in September 2017 and is the Co-head of the firm’s international arbitration practice group. He is resident in the Milan office. Previously, Laurence practiced law in New York and London, where he was a partner at Herbert Smith (1999-2008, 2013-2017) and Gibson Dunn (2008-2013). Laurence has been the lead advocate in a large number of arbitration cases under, for example, the ICC, LCIA, ICDR, AAA, UNCITRAL, Cairo Regional Centre, and Swiss Rules. Laurence also has been called as an arbitrator on more than 25, ICC, ICDR and other arbitrations.
He has experience serving as co-arbitrator, tribunal chair and sole arbitrator in the following arbitral seats: New York, Connecticut, London, Geneva, Paris, The Hague, Montreal, Cairo, Tel Aviv and Cyprus. In addition to his work as an arbitration practitioner, Laurence has tried cases in the United States courts and in England’s High Court. His publications include “You Can Bet the Company but Not the State: The Proper and Improper Conduct of Sovereigns in Arbitration,” World Arbitration and Mediation Review (2009 Vol. 3, Nos. 4-5); “Arbitration, Rhetoric, Proof: The Unity of International Arbitration across Cultures,” in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2009), Ed. A.W. Rovine (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010).
About the Editors:
Professor Loukas Mistelis, LLB, MLE, FCIArb, is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution and investment treaty law. In 2006 he was listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration”, 45 under 45, amongst the top 15 highlighted members of the list, is listed on the Who’s Who Commercial Arbitration since 2007 and also a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators as well as the recipient of the GAR Award for best arbitration lecture of 2013. He is also listed as one of the Thought Leaders in International Arbitration.
Loukas Mistelis is the Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration and the Director of the School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He joined Queen Mary University of London in 1998 and became a professor in 2005. He was also Visiting Professor, NYU in London (2006-2012), a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University London program (2008-2011); he is Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2013); he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Law School (spring semester 2007), Visiting Fellow at NYU Law School (2012), Visiting Professor at Keio University, Tokyo (2008), LUISS, Rome (2009) and Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon (2007, 2009).
He is coordinating the LLM specialisation in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution. He teaches at the LLM programs in London and Paris and is the coordinator of the courses in International Arbitration Law and Practice II, Investment Treaty Arbitration and Investment Arbitration: Substantive Protection and also teaches on the International Commercial Law and International Energy Transactions courses. In Paris Loukas Mistelis teaches International Investment Dispute Settlement, Regulation and Infrastructure of International Arbitration and Applicable Law and Procedures in International Arbitration. Loukas Mistelis has also developed directs our Diploma in International Arbitration by Distance Learning, the Diploma in International Mediation (ADR) by Distance Learning and the Diploma in International Arbitration, which is offered by CCLS with accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Professor Mistelis was the Secretary of the CISG-AC (Advisory Council of the Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods) from 2001 to the end of 2007. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, an academic member of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a member of the Advisory Board of the EFILA (European Federation of Investment Law and Arbitration) and a member of the Academic Committee of AIPN, Chair of Academic Committee of the Civil Mediation Council and President of the Court of CEDRAC (Cyprus Eurasia Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Centre).
Professor Mistelis was educated in Greece (LLB Hons Athens 1991); France (Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights, IIHR, Strasbourg, 1990); Germany (MLE, 1992, Law School, Hanover, Germany, 1998); and Japan (Certificate in Japanese international trade law, Law School, Keio University, Tokyo, 1998). He has been a member of the Athens Bar since 1993. He is fluent in English, German and Greek, and has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Russian and Spanish. Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) since 2001, became Fellow of the CIArb (FCIArb) in December 2016.
Laurence Shore became a Partner at BonelliErede in September 2017 and is the Co-head of the firm’s international arbitration practice group. He is resident in the Milan office. Previously, Laurence practiced law in New York and London, where he was a partner at Herbert Smith (1999-2008, 2013-2017) and Gibson Dunn (2008-2013). Laurence has been the lead advocate in a large number of arbitration cases under, for example, the ICC, LCIA, ICDR, AAA, UNCITRAL, Cairo Regional Centre, and Swiss Rules. Laurence also has been called as an arbitrator on more than 25, ICC, ICDR and other arbitrations.
He has experience serving as co-arbitrator, tribunal chair and sole arbitrator in the following arbitral seats: New York, Connecticut, London, Geneva, Paris, The Hague, Montreal, Cairo, Tel Aviv and Cyprus. In addition to his work as an arbitration practitioner, Laurence has tried cases in the United States courts and in England’s High Court. His publications include “You Can Bet the Company but Not the State: The Proper and Improper Conduct of Sovereigns in Arbitration,” World Arbitration and Mediation Review (2009 Vol. 3, Nos. 4-5); “Arbitration, Rhetoric, Proof: The Unity of International Arbitration across Cultures,” in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2009), Ed. A.W. Rovine (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010).
Available digitally with immediate PDF download
Angola
Agostinho Pereira de Miranda and Sofia Martins
Egypt
Mohamed Abdel Raouf
Kenya
Kananu Mutea and Paul Ngotho
Libya
Kamal Sefrioui
Morocco
Amin Hajji and Nadia El Baroudi-Kostrikis
Mozambique
Agostinho Pereira de Mirand, Filipa Russo de Sá and Ricardo Saraiva
Nigeria
Anthony Idigbe and Olapeju Anozie
Senegal
Aboubacvar Fall and Amadou Dieng
South Africa
Pierre Burger
Tunisia
Sami Houerbi
Uganda
Phillip Bliss Aliker and Michael Mafabi
APPENDICES
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NO CREDIT CARD INFORMATION WILL BE REQUIRED AT CHECKOUT AND THERE IS NO COST TO DOWNLOAD THEM**
ANGOLA
Law 16/03 of 25 July 2003 - the Voluntary Arbitration Law (VAL)
EGYPT
Law No. 27/1994 Promulgating the Law Concerning Arbitration in Civil and Commercial Matters
KENYA
Arbitration Act of Kenya 1995 (Amended 2010)
Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration Act 2013
MOROCCO
Official bulletin n°5584 of Thursday, December 6, 2007 Dahir n°1-07-169 1428 of 19 Kaada (30 November 2007) promulgating the law n°08-05 repealing and replacing the Chapter VIII of Title V of the Procedure civil Code
MOZAMBIQUE
Law No. 11/99 of 8 July 1999
SOUTH AFRICA
Arbitration Act 42 of 1965
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards Act 40 of 1977
UGANDA
The Arbitration and Conciliation Act
First Schedule: The Arbitration Rules
Second Schedule: Forms