Subjects:

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Other Jurisdictions

Contents:

Part I. The Options, Parties and Concepts:
1. Introduction

Part II. Institutional Arbitration in Africa:
2. Development of institutional arbitration in Africa

3. Functions and activities of the Regional Centres

Part III. Legal Infrastructure for Dispute Resolution in Africa:
4. Developments of arbitration laws in Africa

5. Trends in third generation arbitration laws

6. The New York Convention in an African setting: problems and prospects

Part IV. ICSID Arbitration and Conciliation: The African Experience:
7. African States and the making of the ICSID Convention

8. Jurisdiction ratione materiae under ICSID

9. Jurisdiction rationae personae under ICSID

10. Consent under the ICSID Convention

11. The problems of ICSID Arbitration without Privity

12. Recognising and enforcing ICSID awards

Part V. Conclusion:
13. Lack of growth and development of arbitration in Africa

Bibliography.

International Commercial Arbitration and African States is a timely assessment of the arbitral process in the African context. The book focuses on the contribution that arbitration, and other methods of alternative dispute resolution, may make to the development of African states and peoples, while satisfying the legitimate expectations of inward investors and traders.

Although focusing on dispute resolution regimes affecting or concerning African states and their nationals, the work will also have practical, policy and comparative implications for dispute resolution, commercial arbitration and foreign investment in other regions.