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When Burna Boy, who is based in Lagos, negotiates a contract to perform at the Paris Stade de France, perhaps doing so from his second home in London; private international law (“PIL”) is unavoidably engaged.[1] All parties involved need certainty and predictability on the legal norms that govern any international…
Roundtable on Nigeria’s Creative Industries Development Bill 2023 (CIDB)
Nigeria’s Creative Industries Development Bill 2023 (CIDB) is designed to bridge the gap between the Nigerian Creative industries and the Federal Government of Nigeria. If passed into law, the CIDB will become the Creative Industries Development Act (CIDA). CIDA aims…
Lake Chad is the fourth largest lake in Africa (by area). The significant shrinking of the Lake over the past decades has precipitated conflicts and crises in the Lake Chad Basin region. In this in-depth interview, Dr Titilayo Adebola, Associate Director, Centre for Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen, discusses historical…
In recent years, digital assets, including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, have grown in significance and there are a number of legal challenges involved in accommodating them within any system. The term “digital assets” is usually understood to be an umbrella term referring to secured digital representations of value which can…
According to the General Comment No. 12 of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for…
