Extension of deadline (to 10 January 2025) for Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Development and Policy on the theme, “Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Africa”

Edited by: 

Dr Chukwuma Okoli, College of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Dr Eghosa O. Ekhator, College of Derby, United Kingdom

Professor Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, College of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Professor Ralf Michaels, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Worldwide Non-public Legislation, Germany

Hans van Loon, Netherlands 

OVERVIEW 

The Journal of Sustainable Improvement Legislation and Coverage invitations scholarly articles for publication in a particular situation specializing in the theme “Non-public Worldwide Legislation and Sustainable Improvement in Africa.” That is an space with restricted scholarship in Africa, as most analysis has historically emphasised substantive legal guidelines, typically neglecting the important position of personal worldwide regulation in sustainable improvement. researchers ought to take into account themes equivalent to those explored in Michaels/Ruiz Abou-Nigm/Van Loon (eds.) (2021): The Non-public Facet of Reworking our World – UN Sustainable Improvement Targets 2030 and the Function of Non-public Worldwide Legislation. Proposals ought to emphasise non-public worldwide regulation and sustainable improvement points which can be of explicit relevance to the African context.

We encourage researchers to discover the intersection of personal worldwide regulation and sustainable improvement in relation to points equivalent to environmental safety, company social accountability, and the safety of susceptible teams (for instance, workers, shoppers, migrants, and indigenous peoples). Attention-grabbing matters in non-public worldwide regulation may embody how multinational firms are held accountable to host communities in Africa concerning cross-border environmental points together with local weather change, in addition to social and financial sustainability. Researchers may interact with the regulatory framework for multinational firms in cross-border transactions affecting company social accountability in Africa, and the enhancement of human rights requirements and social justice in cross-border employment issues in Africa .They may additionally want to mirror on the implications for Africa of the brand new EU Directive 2024/1760 on company sustainability due diligence, and of comparable due diligence legislative initiatives deployed on the nationwide degree in several international locations. Different related matters embody the African Continental Free Commerce Settlement and its relationship with non-public worldwide regulation and sustainable improvement, in addition to the harmonization of personal worldwide regulation in Africa and its relation with sustainability objectives, regional financial integration, abuses of celebration autonomy in worldwide industrial contracts, and the attraction of worldwide industrial adjudication in Africa. These are all themes that may be explored from a sustainability perspective.

We’re notably all for modern tutorial approaches that deal with these themes throughout the African context. We welcome proposals from all approaches, together with important, doctrinal, analytical, conceptual, reflexive, interdisciplinary, post-critical and speculative traditions of regulation, that allow a severe scholarly reflection on non-public worldwide regulation and sustainable improvement. Contributions will begin filling a major hole within the literature and promote a deeper understanding the relationships, the affect and the potential of personal worldwide regulation in sustainable improvement in Africa.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

Candidates are invited to submit a analysis proposal of as much as 500 phrases, along with a brief CV in the identical doc. Submissions must be despatched to c.okoli@bham.ac.uk, and duplicate E.Ekhator@derby.ac.uk, andinfo@ogeesinstitute.edu.ng by 10 January, 2025 with the e-mail topic clearly marked “Submission Proposal – Particular Subject JSDP – PIL and Sustainable Improvement in Africa”.

Proposals will probably be reviewed by the editors and chosen individuals will probably be knowledgeable by the tip of January 2025.

Full draft of chosen papers of as much as 8,000 phrases inclusive of footnotes must be submitted by 30 June 2025 following the ‘submission tips’ part of The Journal of Sustainable Improvement and Coverage: https://www.ogeesinstitute.edu.ng/submissions.

The editors are searching for alternatives for funding to help a convention in late 2025 to debate draft papers prematurely of publication of the particular situation in early 2026.

ABOUT THE PROJECT 

Learn extra concerning the mission The Non-public Facet of Reworking our World – UN Sustainable Improvement Targets 2030 and the Function of Non-public Worldwide Legislation right here