Portsmouth Business School
Law Professor Advised an African Government on Mineral Resources Exploration and Exploitation
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:55:00 BST
Professor A F M Maniruzzaman, School of Law, has recently acted as an international legal consultant to an African government and drafted a Model Joint Venture Mining Agreement including a Joint Operating Agreement and a simple Model Mineral Exploration and Development Agreement for its use as templates in its agreements with multinational mining companies to explore and exploit its various mineral resources including diamond, gold, uranium and base metals, etc.
Professor Maniruzzaman has published an article “Reforming the WTO Dispute Settlement System: A Rethink of the Third Party Right of Access to Panel and Appeal Processes from Developing Countries'” Perspectives (with Faisal A.S.A. Albashar) in the Journal of World Investment and Trade (vol. 11, no.3, June 2010), pp. 1-66: http://www.wernerpubl.com/frame_inves.htm. He has also presented a paper “The Problems and Challenges Facing Settlement of International Energy Disputes by ADR Methods in Asia: The Way Forward?” to a conference organized by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) in Beijing on 28 May 2010 at the invitation of CIETAC: http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/law/staff/MunirManiruzzamanNews/filetodownload,112063,en.pdf
He has recently examined a law PhD thesis “Non-tariff barriers to international trade in goods: Their legal and trade restrictive aspects” of the Macquarie University, Australia as an external examiner and has acted as an external expert assessor of Professorship of a Malaysian University. Professor Maniruzzaman has also recently acted as referee / appraiser for a book project in the area of international investment law undertaken by Routledge (Taylor & Franscis Group).