Hart Publishing Private International Law in Nigeria (Studies in Private International Law)

Product Description This book examines the rules, principles, and doctrines in Nigerian law for resolving cases involving cross-border issues. It is the first book-length treatise devoted to the full spectrum of private international law issues in Nigeria. As a result of increased international business transactions, trade, and investment with Nigeria, such cross-border issues are more prevalent than ever. The book provides an overview of the relevant body of Nigerian law, with comparative perspectives from other legal systems. Drawing on over five hundred Nigerian cases, relevant statutes, and academic commentaries, this book examines jurisdiction in interstate and international disputes, choice of law, the enforcement of foreign judgments and international arbitral awards, domestic remedies affecting foreign proceedings, and international judicial assistance in the service of legal processes and taking of evidence. Academics, researchers, and students, as well as judges, arbitrators, practitioners, and legislators alike will find Private International Law in Nigeria an instructive and practical guide. Review The book is an excellent piece. For the first time, students and practitioners can have access to an avalanche of Nigerian PIL cases and they can measure the mood of Nigerian courts on important subject matters such as jurisdiction agreements. --AfronomicsLaw Abubakri YekiniThis book is without doubt, one of the most impactful legal textbooks in Nigeria in at least twenty five years. It is a refreshing addition to the legal libraries across Nigeria and beyond. Judges at all levels of courts in Nigeria, legal practitioners, arbitrators and lawmakers alike as well as law teachers, researchers and students, will find Private International Law in Nigeria a highly resourceful and practical guide that fills an intellectual void in a long neglected but increasingly critical field of law. It is a long overdue contribution to the field of private international law in particular, and to legal scholarship in Nigeria as a whole. --AfronomicsLaw Orji Agwu UkaPrivate International Law in Nigeria can rightly be described as a pioneering work … practitioners, academics, and students can now access a multitude of Nigerian cases as a point of reference more easily than ever before … It will be extremely useful for judicial officers, academics, law students, legal practitioners, cross-border litigants and anyone interested in a Nigerian perspective on cross-border issues. --The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Abubakri Yekini, Lagos State University About the Author Chukwuma Okoli is Post-doctoral Researcher in Private International Law at the TMC Asser Institute, The Hague. Richard Oppong is Associate Professor at Thompson Rivers University.