All posts by Dr Chinwe Egbunike-Umegbolu

Chinwe was an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-UKRI-funded Postdoctoral fellow at the U. of Brighton (UoB), UK, a judge for the British Podcast Awards 2024 and a fellow of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution (Mediation Committee). She is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She achieved the Bronze Contributor status of the Resolution Institute (Australia/New Zealand), is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) UK, and was a Mentor at the Beyond Barriers Student mentoring program at Kingston U. London. Her book on ‘Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Comparative Perspectives Nigeria, the UK, and the US’ was published by Springer Law.

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Fifty Shades of International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) – by Chinwe Egbunike-Umegbolu

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The Case of Developing Nations

ABSTRACT

Over the years, the constant desire for justice, peace and the best interest of parties, especially in commercial disputes, has driven the course of conflict management from the traditional litigation formula towards negotiation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration. 

In developing nations, the drift towards international arbitration is becoming a stronger and more regular terrain. In light of this, a debatable pertinent question to answer is whether this trend undermines the capacity of developing nations from developing robust legal systems and infringe upon the rule of law?

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