lectures

Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Emilia Onyema and Lutz Oette (College of Law)

SOAS

November 27

SOAS Gallery

Event linkcalender

In this inaugural lecture, Professors Emilia Onyema and Lutz Oette will be presenting lectures on 'Africa and International Arbitration: Friend or Foe' and 'Human Rights in Crisis' respectively.

Professor Emilia Onyema and Professor Lutz Oette from the College of Law deliver their inaugural lectures on two different and distinctive themes.

Professor Onyema's inaugural lecture is titled 'Africa and International Arbitration: Friend or Foe'. This lecture explores the evolutionary changes and transformations in the role of Africans in international arbitration, as parties and participants. It will argue that the international arbitration community is slowly embracing African practitioners as equals, while Africans as parties appear to be turning away from the process of arbitration.

Professor Oette's inaugural lecture, 'Human Rights in Crisis', charts the evolution of pertinent debates, situating the contemporary moment in a fundamental polycrisis of and for humanity that brings into sharp focus the nature, role and effectiveness of human rights (law). In so doing, the lecture pays tribute to visions and revolutionary spirits that inspire if not represent counter-hegemonic approaches to human rights.