ANNOUNCEMENT

The Regional Advanced School of Magistracy (ERSUMA) of the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) is pleased to announce the publication of Issue No. 21 of the ERSUMA biannual review of African business and comparative law.

Produced by its Research Centre, this journal includes several contributions, validated by a scientific committee, on current issues in business law, whether OHADA law, the national law of the Contracting States, other African Community laws or comparative law.

Since the adoption of its editorial charter (https://www.ohada.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Charte-editoriale-Revue-ERSUMA.pdf), it has been receiving contributions in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish and has included an abstract in each of these languages for each contribution.

In this issue, readers will find more than fifteen (15) scientific contributions grouped into four parts as follows:

Doctrinal Studies:

• Guarantees of a Fair Trial Put to the Test in Arbitration;
• The immutability of the object of payment in collective proceedings;
• Reward in OHADA Uniform Law;
• Seizure of undivided property under OHADA law;
• OHADA law and national laws: thirty years of tumultuous experience;
• The hope of unpaid creditors in the liquidation of OHADA property closed for lack of assets;
• The Validity of Arbitration Clauses in OHADA Law;
• Mediation in OHADA Business Law: a Guarantee of Stable Commercial Relationships.

 

Case Law:

• The Fate of an Action before the CCJA against a Person who no longer Exists.

Laws:

• Codification of Offences under the OHADA Uniform Acts;
• Legal Certainty in Electronic Contracts: Analysis in the Light of Legislation in the CEMAC, WAEMU and ECOWAS Areas;
• The Communitarisation of Criminal Law: Reflections on Three Decades of Decentralisation of Criminal Law by CEMAC Legislators

Professional Practice:

• Africa and investment arbitration: State of play and Prospects for Promotion in the Light of UNCITRAL’s Work on the Possible Reform of Investor-State Arbitration.

ERSUMA Journal is available in digital format. It can be purchased either as a single unit (10,000 CFA francs) or as an annual subscription (17,000 CFA francs, i.e. two issues per year).

For any subscription to the ERSUMA Review, kindly send a request to: lovissoukpo.ersuma@ohada.org.

For any contribution to ERSUMA Review, kindly send your proposal to : algadi.ersuma@ohada.org / kinsi.ersuma@ohada.org.

For further information:

ERSUMA  02 P.O. BOX 353, Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin
Tel. : +229 97 97 05 37
Email : ersuma@ohada.org

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