I spent some time in Namibia and South Africa last December looking into the impact of bilateral investment treaties on land reform.
I don’t do a lot of field trips, and my wife harboured some…
When I last visited South Africa in 2006, there was much talk of a potential bilateral investment treaty between SA and Zimbabwe.
Three years later, as I make another visit to the region, the long…
In recent months, there have been a steady barrage of media reports about so-called “land grabs”.
Many believe that we are seeing a new “Scramble for Africa”, as food-scarce countries and private…
In submitting his instructions to the American delegation attending the 1907 Second Hague Conference, Secretary of State Elihu Root argued that the Permanent Court of Arbitration system needed…
By now almost everyone in the international arbitration world is aware of the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the oral pleadings in the so-called Abyei Arbitration before the Permanent Court of…
