Early Career

Le Forum académique d’Afronomicslaw est un réseau réunissant des étudiant.e.s, de jeunes chercheur.euse.s ainsi que des praticien.ne.s en début de carrière, animé.e.s par un intérêt marqué pour le droit international économique appliqué à l’Afrique et au Sud global. À travers un programme annuel structuré, le Forum propose un large éventail d’activités destinées à favoriser l’épanouissement intellectuel et professionnel de ses membres. Dans ce cadre, le Bureau Exécutif pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, instance dirigeante du Forum dans la région, lance un appel à candidatures en vue de constituer sa deuxième cohorte.

The Afronomicslaw Academic Forum is a network of students, early-career researchers, and early-career practitioners interested in International Economic Law as it relates to Africa and the Global South. The Forum coordinates a wide range of activities to support the professional development of members over the course of one (1) year. The West African Executive Board, which is the leadership of the Forum in West Africa, is looking for students, early-career researchers, and early-career practitioners from the whole West African region who are passionate about international economic law to join the Forum as part of its second cohort.

This Guest Lecture event is collaboratively organized by the Afronomicslaw Academic Forum and the Institute for African Women in Law.

This symposium’s idea was born out of at least four reflections on that question – the experiences of the four editors. While our experiences are unique, we could agree on one thing: there are junior international legal scholars struggling with various challenges that are inherent to the field. The hierarchies of academic institutions, the political economy of modern universities, geographical location, language, race, gender, and mental health struggles are some of the issues of concern to junior legal researchers, and often even to those advanced in their career. Difficulties emerge not only from structures of oppression and exclusion but also from insufficient familiarity with basic aspects of academic life. All four of us agreed that at the beginning of our careers we had/have little understanding of how to prepare a book proposal, an abstract for an interesting conference, a polite rejection email for an attractive offer, a teaching plan, a justification for chosen methods, and much more.