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On March 5, 2026, the UCT ADRU Panel The UCT Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Unit (ADRU) will host a panel discussion on: “The Case for (and Against) An African Investment Court.”

The News and Events category publishes the latest News and Events relating to International Economic Law relating to Africa and the Global South. Every week, Afronomicslaw.org receive the News and Events in their e-mail accounts. The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law. News and Events with a Global South focus are also often included.

The News and Events category publishes the latest News and Events relating to International Economic Law relating to Africa and the Global South. Every week, Afronomicslaw.org receive the News and Events in their e-mail accounts. The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law. News and Events with a Global South focus are also often included.

The recent tariff wars, ignited by President Trump after he returned to the White House in January 2025, have raised several important questions for Africa, especially in the arena of trade and tariffs and their impact on the continent’s economic development. Such questions include, among others: What will define Africa’s place in the global trading system over the next generation? Can trade and tariff regimes accelerate inclusive development, or do they reproduce structural inequalities? How should African economies navigate an era of shifting global power, contested multilateralism, and renewed protectionism? What forms of trade governance will define the future of development across the continent and beyond?

The News and Events category publishes the latest News and Events relating to International Economic Law relating to Africa and the Global South. Every week, Afronomicslaw.org receive the News and Events in their e-mail accounts. The News and Events published every week include conferences, major developments in the field of International Economic Law in Africa at the national, sub-regional and regional levels as well as relevant case law. News and Events with a Global South focus are also often included.

Organised in partnership with the Fondation Afric’Avenir, this edition seeks to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a decolonial comparative legal approach. It also aims to contribute to the consolidation of a decolonial comparative law community across the African continent and beyond. The overarching theme of the 2027 edition is decolonial comparative law and the informal/formal economy. The workshop takes the informal economy seriously as a site of legality in its own right, examined through a decolonial and comparative lens attentive to legal pluralism and situated practices.

Using the dependency theory and a political economy framework to analyze the FfD4 Outcome Document, this paper provides a brief critical review of the ineffectiveness of debt restructuring initiatives over the past decade (2015–2025). The paper shows how dire the debt crisis has been and continues to be, and how Seville was a missed opportunity to change course. Importantly, it critically analyzes what Seville managed “to do and did not do” on debt and international financial architecture provisions in the Outcome Document and concludes by providing recommendations to strengthen them in a post-Seville.

We invite interventions from scholars of international law, international relations, and germane fields exploring the future of international economic law.

The conference seeks to provide a rigorous, practice-oriented forum for interrogating foundational questions in reparation in international law. How have international courts and tribunals conceptualized the forms, functions, and limits of reparation? What distinctive insights and claims emerge from African experiences with historical and contemporary injustice, including colonialism, slavery, apartheid, and serious human rights violations? And how might African perspectives continue to shape the progressive development of international law in this area?

“Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age” is an edited volume to be published under a contract with Routledge in the Routledge Research in International Law series. It will examine how solidarities are formed and expressed in the digital sphere and their implications for international law in areas including human rights, trade, environment, health, and peace and security. The volume is edited by Dr Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Dr Karin M Frodé (Monash University), and Dr Christopher Nyinevi (ECOWAS Court of Justice).