ISLP is involved in several projects to advance Alternative Dispute Resolution. Working with the Lagos Court of Arbitration, ISLP arranged for White & Case partner Charles Nairac to lead a March workshop for Nigerian judges on the enforcement of arbitral awards. White & Case also presented an arbitration training for the newly established Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration of Haiti. ISLP-Europe is launching a pilot project to introduce mediation to resolve certain cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

Over the past seven years, ISLP has developed a significant program of assistance to several governments of least developed countries regarding the management and use of their countries’ extractive sector wealth. This program draws on a major ISLP strength: its global access to lawyers with decades of experience in complex economic regulation and international business transactions, including in the extractive sector.

Bill Estey, a partner with Torys in Toronto spent four weeks in May/June in Liberia working with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) on a project regarding Liberia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Bill shared some personal thoughts about the impact of his time in Liberia.

ISLP has joined Global Rights in a project to help build the skills of legal aid providers in Burundi, Nigeria and Uganda so that they can more effectively use strategic litigation to challenge systemic impunity by the state in cases of gross human rights violations.