^* Professor Peter did not submit remarks for the Proceedings.

¹ Notably, in April 2012 a major conference on Africa and international law was held at Albany Law School in New York, with over 70 papers presented and over 150 attendees, including the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda; the Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya, Dr. Willy Mutunga; the Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Adama Dieng; and Justice Abdul Koroma of the International Court of Justice, among others.

² A sampling of these books includes: The Future of African Customary Law (Fenrich, Jeanmarie & Galizzi, Paolo eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Okafor, Obiorą, The African Human Rights System: Activist Forces and International Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2007, transferred to digital printing 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Viojen, Frans, International Human Rights Law in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2d ed., 2012)Google Scholar; and Beyani, Chaloka, Protection of the Right to Seek and Obtain Asylum Under the African Human Rights System (Brill, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

³ A sampling of these books includes: Kidane, Won, China-Africa Dispute Settlement: The Law, Culture and Economics of Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer, 2011)Google Scholar; Oppong, Richard, Legal Aspects of Economic Integration in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Gathii, James, African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kongolo, Tshimanga, African Contributions in Shaping the Worldwide Intellectual Property System (Ashgate, 2013)Google Scholar; Oppong, Richard, Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Shaping the Trade Relation Between European Union and African Countries Beyond the Cot onou Agreement: Development Challenges and Options (Hodu, Ngangjoh & Matambalya, eds., Routledge, 2009)Google Scholar; and Mgbeoji, Ikechi, Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge (Cornell University Press, 2005)Google Scholar.

⁴ A sampling of these books includes: Africa and the Future of International Criminal Justice (Nmehielle, Vincent O. ed., Eleven International Press 2012)Google Scholar; and Clark, Kamari Maxine, Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁵ For example, Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law (Levitt, Jeremy ed., Hart, 2008)Google Scholar; Vrancken, Patrick H.G., South Africa and the Law of the Sea (Brill, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Dersso, Solomon A., Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Constitutional Design: A Theory of Minority Rights for Addressing Africa’s Multi-Ethnic Challenge (Martinus, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Murphy, Sean D., Kidane, Won & Snider, Thomas R., Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (Oxford University Press, 2013)Google Scholar; Massoud, MarkFathi, Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan (Cambridge University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jeng, Abou, Peacebuilding in the African Union: Law, Philosophy and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Levitt, Jeremy, Illegal Peace in Africa: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power-Sharing with Warlords, Rebels and Junta (Cambridge University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁶ Makau Mutua, “Typologies of Scholarship on Africa,” infra at 189.

⁷ Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, “The Past and Future of African International Law Scholarship: International Trade and Investment Law,” infra at 194.

⁸ Notable in this respect are the beginnings of serious scholarly inquiry. See, e.g., Attiya Waris, Tax & Development: Solving Kenya’s Fiscal Crisis Through Human Rights (2013); Tax Justice and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism: 1945 to Present (Jeremy Leaman & Attiya Waris eds., 2013).

⁹ Erika George, “Feminism and the Future of African International Legal Scholarship,” infra at 192.

¹⁰ See Gathii, James, A Critical Appraisal of the International Legal Tradition ofTaslim Olawale Elias, 21 Leiden J. Int’l L. 317 (2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.