Private International Law in Nigeria
Author(s): Chukwuma Okoli, Richard Oppong
This book examines the rules, principles, and doctrines in Nigerian law for resolving cases involving cross-border issues. It is the first book-length treatise devoted to the full spectrum of private international law issues in Nigeria. As a result of increased international business transactions, trade, and investment with Nigeria, such cross-border issues are more prevalent than ever. The book provides an overview of the relevant body of Nigerian law, with comparative perspectives from other legal systems. Drawing on over five hundred Nigerian cases, relevant statutes, and academic commentaries, this book examines jurisdiction in interstate and international disputes, choice of law, the enforcement of foreign judgments and international arbitral awards, domestic remedies affecting foreign proceedings, and international judicial assistance in the service of legal processes and taking of evidence. Academics, researchers, and students, as well as judges, arbitrators, practitioners, and legislators alike will find Private International Law in Nigeria an instructive and practical guide.
Review(s):
“The book is an excellent piece. For the first time, students and practitioners can have access to an avalanche of Nigerian PIL cases and they can measure the mood of Nigerian courts on important subject matters such as jurisdiction agreements.” —AfronomicsLaw
“This book is without doubt, one of the most impactful legal textbooks in Nigeria in at least twenty five years. It is a refreshing addition to the legal libraries across Nigeria and beyond. Judges at all levels of courts in Nigeria, legal practitioners, arbitrators and lawmakers alike as well as law teachers, researchers and students, will find Private International Law in Nigeria a highly resourceful and practical guide that fills an intellectual void in a long neglected but increasingly critical field of law. It is a long overdue contribution to the field of private international law in particular, and to legal scholarship in Nigeria as a whole.” —AfronomicsLaw
“Private International Law in Nigeria can rightly be described as a pioneering work … practitioners, academics, and students can now access a multitude of Nigerian cases as a point of reference more easily than ever before … It will be extremely useful for judicial officers, academics, law students, legal practitioners, cross-border litigants and anyone interested in a Nigerian perspective on cross-border issues.” —The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
“This book is the first full length, systematic treatment of Nigerian private international law. Doing something for the first time makes the authors pioneers. In this case they have navigated the unknown terrain with great skill … I highly recommend this book to all lawyers and judges in Nigeria, to all legal academics working on private international law anywhere, to those responsible for international matters in the Nigerian Federal Government and those responsible for justice in all the States of the Nigerian Federation.” —Paul Beaumont, Professor of Private International Law, University of Stirling (from the Series Editor's Preface)
“The book is an immense resource material on private international law, conflict of laws, for Judges, lawyers, law lecturers and law students in the Universities and a fantastic contribution to the legal jurisprudence and materials on the subject. I congratulate the authors for their foresight and resourcefulness in putting the work together. The book is a 'must have' for everyone involved in personal and business transactions that have inter-State and/or international elements.” —Honourable Justice H A O Abiru, Justice of the Nigerian Court of Appeal (from the Foreword)
ISBN: 9781509945368