A commitment to law, development and public policy : a festschrift in honour of Nana Dr. SKB Asante (Nana Susubribi Krobea Asante) / edited by Richard Frimpong Oppong, LLB (Ghana), LLM (Cambridge), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Uni Brit Columbia), (Barrister-at-Law, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law), Kissi Agyebeng, LLB (Ghana), LLM (Dalhousie), LLM (Cornell), (Barrister-at-Law, Lecturer, University of Ghana School of Law, Managing Partner, Cromwell Gray LLP, Accra).
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Title
A commitment to law, development and public policy : a festschrift in honour of Nana Dr. SKB Asante (Nana Susubribi Krobea Asante) / edited by Richard Frimpong Oppong, LLB (Ghana), LLM (Cambridge), LLM (Harvard), PhD (Uni Brit Columbia), (Barrister-at-Law, Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law), Kissi Agyebeng, LLB (Ghana), LLM (Dalhousie), LLM (Cornell), (Barrister-at-Law, Lecturer, University of Ghana School of Law, Managing Partner, Cromwell Gray LLP, Accra).
Published
London, England : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Call Number
K3220 .C66 2016
ISBN
9780854902149 (hardback)
0854902147 (hardback)
0854902147 (hardback)
Description
xxiv, 699 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)968162273
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
"Selected publications and presentations of Nana Dr. SKB Asante": pages xix-xxiv.
"Selected publications and presentations of Nana Dr. SKB Asante": pages xix-xxiv.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
v
Preface
ix
Contents
xi
List of Contributors
xv
Biography of Nana Dr. SKB Asante
xvii
Selected Publications and Presentations of Nana Dr. SKB Asante
xix
pt. I
Reflections on the Life, Work and Scholarship of Nana Dr. SKB Asante
From an African Village to the Global Village and Back: A Fictional Story on the Life and Career of Nana Dr. SKB Asante / Mr. Benjamin Kwakye
3
Law and Life -- The Measure of the Man: An Essay in Honour of Nana Dr. SKB Asante / VCRAC Crabbe
14
Ahead of His Time: Samuel KB Asante / Ms. Lilla Fordos
30
Nana Dr. SKB Asante: A Most Highly Qualified Publicist of Public International Law / Mr. Emmanuel Yaw Benneh
42
Ghana's International Borrowing and other International Business Transactions: Perspectives of Nana Dr. SKB Asante / Dr. Kwaku Addeah
51
Debate on Corporate Responsibility under International Investment Law: The SKB Asante Contribution / Mr. Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
77
Recollections of an American Friend of Dr. Samuel KB Asante / Judge Charles N Brower
100
Legal Advisor to the Developing World / Mr. Samuel Stern
103
pt. II
Issues Involving Foreign Investments and International Business Transactions
Bilateral Investment Treaties, the Settlement of Investment Disputes, and Developing Countries / Muna Ndulo
107
National Foreign Direct Investment Policy Competition and the Changing International Investment Regime / Dr. Karl P Sauvant
126
Regulating Transnational Corporations: An Unending Quest for Global Economic Justice / Dr. Victor Essien
140
Challenge of a Multilateral Regulatory Framework for Investments: New Approaches and Instruments / Dr. Antoine Basile
156
Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? / Louis T Wells
165
"Spare the Sinner; Punish the Righteous": A Review of the Supreme Court of Ghana Jurisprudence on International Business Transactions / Mr. Christopher Y Nyinevi
175
pt. III
National and International Dispute Resolution
Alternative Dispute Resolution and its Relationship with the Judicial Process in the United Kingdom / William Blair
201
African National Courts, International Arbitral Tribunals and the Quest for Harmonious Relations / Dr. Francis Botchway
206
Transfer Pricing, Baseball and International Arbitration / Charles H Gustafson
222
International Business Transactions, Arbitration and the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana / Dr. Richard Frimpong Oppong
235
Defective and Pathological Clauses in International Commercial Arbitration Agreements / Barbara F Ackah-Yensu
256
New York Convention, Arbitration Agreements and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Ghana / Samuel Marful-Sau
271
Administration of Justice by Traditional Authorities in Ghana: An Exposition on the Law and Practice / Ms. Phyllis M Christian
278
Dispute Resolution and Consumer Protection in Ghana / Mr. George Otu
295
pt. IV
Perspectives on Nation Building in the Developing World
Language that Denigrates, Language that Threatens, and the Challenge of Nation Building under a Constitutional Democracy / Henrietta Jan Mensa-Bonsu
313
Personal Reflections on the Fragility of States in the Developing World and Attempts to Proscribe Hate Speech and Speech that Threatens the Polity / Mr. Dominic K Asante
335
African Interests in Interpreting the Notion of "Failed States": Law, Regionalism and Global Governance / Henry J Richardson
359
pt. V
Governance, Rule of Law and Constitutionalism
Organised Civil Society Helps Better Global Governance / Dr. Peter Eigen
383
Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Ghana: Some Recent Case Law / Albert Kodzo Fiadjoe
394
Promoting, Nurturing and Sustaining the Rule of Law in Ghana / Kwame Frimpong
410
When Officials Decide: A Study of the History and Nature of Discretionary Powers in Ghana / Maame AS Mensa-Bonsu
432
Ghana's Council of State: Free & Fit to Counsel? / Ms. Julia Selman Ayetey
458
"Progressional Chiefs", "Service Chiefs" and "Heads of Communities" in the Chieftaincy Institution of Ghana and their Legal Effect / Dennis Dominic Adjei
476
pt. VI
Natural Resources, Land and the Environment
SKB Asante and the Half-Century Debate on Resource Nationalism in the Developing World / Dr. Raymond A Atuguba
491
Establishing a New Legal Regime for Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production in Ghana -- The Role of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations / Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata
511
Managing Oil Revenue for Economic Development: An Examination of the Fiscal Regime Relating to Petroleum Development in Ghana / Mr. Solomon F Amoateng
531
Land Administration in Ghana: A Prognosis / John Tiah Bugri
547
Environment: Our Silent Heritage / Dr. Letitia E Obeng
561
pt. VII
Public International Law
African Union and the International Criminal Court: The Imperative of Reconciling the Ends of Justice with Considerations for Peace / Mr. Emmanuel Yaw Benneh
569
Re-thinking the Domestication of International Treaties in Ghana / Mr. Ernest Yaw Ako
587
pt. VIII
Issues Involving Law, Development and Policy
International Intellectual Property Law and Africa: Considerations of Human Rights and Development / Dr. Edward Kwakwa
607
Advances in Medicine, Regulation of Health Care and the Search for Appropriate Legal Framework in Ghana / Mr. Osei-Afriyie
617
Legal Reforms in Ghana and the Reality of a Hybrid Legal Personality / Dr. Ama Hammond
637
Injustice Masquerading as "Justice": The Adverse Effects of European Values on African Legal Systems / Nana Kobina Nketsia
653
Epilogue
Actors in the Transition from an African Village to the Global Village and Back: Reflections and Words of Appreciation / Nana Dr. SKB Asante
683