About the Author

Laurence Boulle is Professor of Law at the Thomas More Law School, ACU, Sydney and Adjunct Professor at Bond University, Queensland, Australia and at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He was formerly Professor of Law at Bond University and Issy Wolfson Professor of Law and Director of the Mandela Institute at the University of Witwatersrand. He has taught and published in the areas of international investment law, globalisation and alternative dispute resolution. He is chair of the Mediator Standards Board in Australia and is a current member of the ICSID panel of conciliators for investor-state disputes. Dr Emmanuel T Laryea is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia, and a Fellow at the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance, Bond University, Australia. He obtained his LLB from the University of Ghana, his LLM from the University of Glasgow, and his PhD from Bond University. Emmanuel taught at the University of Ghana, Bond University and Lancaster University, United Kingdom, before joining Monash in 2001. He also practised law with a commercial law firm in Ghana. Franziska Sucker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, School of Law, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a doctoral candidate at the Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was a visiting research fellow at the World Trade Institute, Berne, Switzerland and a visiting researcher at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights & International Law, Johannesburg. Prior to working in South Africa Franziska was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany and a legal advisor in the GIZ, Accra, Ghana, for the Good Governance Programme, Revenue Mobilisation Support (RMS).