The Institute of Energy Law, affiliated to the Center for American and International Law is conducting a lecture series on the rule of law in Africa and beyond in the offline mode.
About IEL
Institute for Energy Law (IEL) at The Center for American and International Law, one of the world’s oldest continuing legal education providers. The IEL is a membership organization, and counts many of the leading energy companies and attorneys among its international membership.
It presents several educational conferences and seminars each year, publishes papers and periodicals, and provides an important forum in which contemporary issues affecting the energy industries can be discussed.
About the opportunity
This program will explore rule of law successes and challenges in Africa, focusing on problems caused by poverty, lack of opportunities, and powerlessness. In addition, we will discuss rule of law challenges caused by global communications and information networks that too often fail to guarantee freedom of expression and opinion.
About the speaker
Hauwa Ibrahim is a Nigerian-born human rights lawyer, scholar, 2005 laureate of the Sakharov Prize, and a 2000 alumnus of The Center for American and International Law’s Academy of American and International Law. Ibrahim is a supporter of education, which she believes is a way to empower women and the best defense for those facing the greatest deprivation.
She serves as a consultant to many human rights and non-governmental organizations. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University Divinity School, the University of Rome, the Wellesley Center for Women, a World Fellow at Yale University, a Radcliffe fellow, and a fellow at both the Human Rights Program and the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University. She is the President of The Peace Institute with offices in the USA, Italy, and Nigeria
How to register?
Interested candidates can register through the link given at the end of the post.
Registration Fee
This lecture series is being provided to all law students free of cost.
Mode of the course
This course will take place in the online mode.
Contact Information
For any queries, feel free to write to iel@cailaw.org
