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Qatar University & McNair International

 

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Organisation
Qatar University & McNair International
I practise/work in
  • International Arbitration
  • International Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Title (Mr/Mrs/Miss/Dr)
Professor
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Prof. Francis N. Botchway
Gender
Male
Country
Non-African Country
Non-African Country (Please Specify)
Qatar
Country of Birth
Ghana
Nationalities
Ghanaian/British
Languages
English
Individual Member Profession (see note below)
  • Academic
  • Counsel
Number of Cases as Counsel in international arbitration/ADR
1-5
Number of cases as Arbitration/ADR Expert Witness
  • 1-5
Areas of Speciality
  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • Environment
  • International Commercial Disputes
  • International Investment Disputes
  • Investment law
  • Joint Venture
  • Public International Law
Degrees/Qualifications, Institutions and Dates Obtained
PH.D - University of Manchester 2000
LL.M. - Harvard Law School 1997
LL.M. - Dalhousie Law School, 1994
LL.B./BL - University of Ghana Law School, 1992.
List Arbitration/ADR Panels you belong to
ICSID, LCIA, CIETAC/BAC
Professional Experience (Job Title, Organisation and Dates)
Sir William Blair Chair in ADR, Qatar University 2016-
Associate Dean, Qatar University 2011-2016
Head of Contracts & Compliance, Qatar University 2018-2021.
Reader in Law, Hull University 2006-2010
Lecturer in Law, Warwick University 2000-2006.
Biography
Francis Botchway is a Professor of Law and Sir William Blair Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at Qatar University and a Senior Counsel with McNair International firm. He served as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for five years. He also had additional responsibility as Head of Contracts and Compliance at Qatar University Research Office for three years. Francis’ educational background includes law degrees from leading universities in Canada, Ghana, the U.S and the UK. He teaches and researches in International Economic Law, specifically, International Investment Law, International Law, Natural Resources Law, Comparative Law, Arbitration and Negotiations. He has also taught at the University of Warwick Law School for six years and briefly at Hull University in the UK. Formerly, he was Adjunct Professor at Leuven University in Belgium, Warwick, and Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico. He was a member of TradeLab, providing legal services to governments, NGOs and businesses. He is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration, Beijing Arbitration Center and also on the ICSID roll of arbitrators. He is consulted by law firms in the UK, the US, the Middle East and the continent of Africa, on litigation, arbitration as well as international business transactions. He has published books and dozens of articles in leading International journals in Europe, United States, Australia, Asia and Africa. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Global Journal of Comparative Law. He edited a book on Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development. He is currently working on a book on International Commercial Courts and has a forthcoming book on Defences in International Investment Law, to be published by Routledge, UK.
Legal Background
  • Common Law
  • International Law
Qualified in (specify jurisdiction(s))
Ghana
Types of agreements from which disputes in your practice most frequently arise
  • Concessions
  • Public-Private Partnerships
List arbitration/ADR articles, book chapters, books and where published
Books
1. Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development (edited) (Edward Elgar, UK.
2011) pp 1-530.
2. Documents in International Economic Law (Routledge, UK. 2006) pp 1-952.
3. Environmental Law in Ghana (Kluwer Monograph Series, The Netherlands. 2004) pp 1-
179.
4. Defences in International Investment Law (forthcoming, Routledge, UK, 2018). Pp 1-350.

Chapters in Books
5. African National Courts and International Arbitral Tribunals: The Quest for Harmony.
(in A Commitment to Law, Development & Public Policy, Richard Oppong & Kissi
Adjabeng eds; Wildy, Simmons and Hill Publishers, UK, 2016).
6. Regime Theory and China – Africa Economic Relations (in Natural Resource Investment
and Africa’s Development, Edward Elgar, 2011) pp. 368-394.
10. Dispute Resolution in oil and Gas Industry (Eduardo Pereira, eds, Edward Elgar,
forthcoming, 2018).
Articles
7. New Arbitration Law in Qatar: Issues Arising (International Arbitration Law Review,
UK, 2017).
8. Trans-systemic Models of Dispute Resolution and Economic Development: The Case of
Qatar, vol. 19 Asian Business Lawyer (2017).
9. The Constitutional Regime for Natural Resource Governance in Africa: The Difficult
March towards Accountability – with Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza (6 World Bank Legal
Review, USA. 2015).
10. The Immunity Conundrum (African Journal of International and Comparative Law,
Edinburgh University Press, UK, 2014).
11. Diminishing Acts of the State. Or Is It? (13 Journal of World Investment & Trade, Brill
Publishers, the Netherlands, 2012) pp. 687-717.
12. Forums for International Economic Adjudication: Threads in Fragments (Cardozo Journal
of International and Comparative Law, summer, 2012) pp. 639-712.
13. Not Ready for Change? The English Courts and Pre-contractual Negotiations (with K.A.
Choong – The International Lawyer, vol. 45, 2011) pp.625-645.
14. Mergers and Acquisitions in the Natural Resource Industry. (26 Connecticut Journal of
International Law, 2011).
15. Can The Law Compel Business Parties to Negotiate? (3 Journal of World Energy Law
and Business, Oxford Univ. Press, 2010).
16. Privy to Unsustainable Arguments in the Belize Dam Case (Environmental Law Review,
2006) pp 144-151.



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