Project Updates
A State Affair: Privatising Congo’s Copper Sector
Last week The Carter Center published the first part of "A State Affair: Privatizing Congo’s Copper Sector", a comprehensive report on the contractual and financial practices of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned mining company, Gécamines, and its most [...]
ISLP and CCSI Publish New Offshore Stock Sales Paper
Today ISLP and CCSI have published a paper which focuses on issues and responses that developing country governments could consider if they decide to tax indirect transfers of extractive industries' assets. The paper explores the legislative and regulatory provisions currently [...]
7th Annual Commercial Law Training Program in Zimbabwe Reports Record Attendance
ISLP and the Law Society of Zimbabwe have reported a record attendance at their recent back to back CLTPs in Harare and Bulawayo. ISLP volunteers were Craig Owen White (ISLP Trustee and corporate and commercial partner at Hahn Loeser [...]
The GIIN & ISLP Host Inaugural Legal Practitioners Track European Convening
On the heels of a successful Second Annual Legal Practitioners Track Convening—held in New York in November 2016—ISLP, in collaboration with its partner the Global Impact Investing Network (the GIIN), held its first London-based Legal Practitioners Track Convening on [...]
Yaoundé Dialogue on Contract Negotiation and Fiscal Policy in the Extractive Industries
On 27 May 2017 the Secretary General of Cameroon's Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological Development opened a three-day regional dialogue for senior government officials on contract negotiation and fiscal policies in the extractive industries. This was the third [...]
Is It Time for the Media to Intervene in Strasbourg?
"Is it Time for the Media to Intervene in Strasbourg" argues that the media community in Europe should act with urgency to make greater use of 'third party interventions' before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Third [...]