PROF. BEN CHIGARA, PH.D. (NOTTINGHAM), LL.M WITH DISTINCTION & BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD (HULL), BA HONS. (KEELE), FHEA (UK), FINST.LM (LONDON), FGOA ...

Prof. Ben Chigara, Ph.D. (Nottingham), LL.M with Distinction & Best
performance award (Hull), BA Hons. (Keele), FHEA (UK), FInst.LM
(London), FGoA (USA), FAiADR (Malaysia), FReachSOC (London),
MCIArb (London)

Benedict Abrahamson Tendayi Chigara is Professor of Public Law in the College of
Law at Qatar University. For sixteen years (2003 – 2019) he held the position of Full-
Professor of Law at Brunel Law School, Brunel University London, UK.

Previous to that Benedict held Law lectureships at The University of Warwick where
he lectured under the guidance of Professor John McEldowney, in Constitutional &
Administrative Law, Public International Law, and in International Economic Law;
The University of Leeds, where he lectured under the guidance of Professor John
Bell, in Jurisprudence, Contract Law, and in International Economic Law; Oxford
Brookes University, where he lectured under the guidance of Professor Diana
Woodhouse, in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Contract Law, and in Public
International Law.

He held various tutorial positions at The University of Nottingham during and after his
Ph.D. study under Professor Catherine Redgwell and Professor Ralph Sandland,
leading seminars in the Law of Tort at LLB level, and with guidance of Professor
Caroline Hunter, lecturing in Construction Law, Judicial and Alternative Dispute
Settlement mechanisms to final year students from the Departments of Architecture
and Engineering (1997 - 1999).

Between 1989 -1990 Benedict taught English Literature at Denmark’s Tårnby
Gymnasium, Roskilde Amts Gymnasium and at Nykøbing Felster Gymnasium while
completing a dissertation on comparative pedagogics with Professor Joan Conrad of
the University of Copenhagen. Before that, Benedict had qualified and taught English
Language & English Literature in Zimbabwe (1984 - 1989), examining the same for
the GCSE Cambridge Examination Board (1987 - 1989).

In 2003 Benedict vacated his position at Warwick University to join Brunel University
London as Full-Professor of Law. In 2004 he established the HEFCE funded Centre
for International and Public Law (CIPL) which was inaugurated by Lord Bill Brett on
11 May 2004. Ben is the founding Director of Brunel University’s flagship Master of
Laws programmes in International Law. He has held various managerial roles in the
School of Social Sciences and Law (2004 - 05) and in Brunel Law School (2006 -
2013); and participated fully in various University Committees and Councils.

The author of several peer reviewed research monographs, journal articles and
chapters in edited collections, his research has been instrumental to the work of
human rights institutions; national, regional and international courts; and to national
and regional organizations. He has facilitated the work of the United Nations OHCHR
as an expert on Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights; and also, on the
Intergovernmental Working Group on the Durban Declaration and Programme of
Action against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Benedict regularly
provides legal opinions on International Law issues and on inter-jurisdictional issues.

He is a peer reviewer for several Research Funding Bodies, including the British
Academy (BA); the European Science Foundation (ESF); European Commission
(EC); Qatar National Research Funding Council; National Research Foundation of
South Africa; the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus; etc. He regularly
assists publishing houses with evaluation of book proposals and book development
projects. He is a peer reviewer with many leading international law periodicals.

Benedict has numerous international affiliations, including with the International
Labour Organization (ILO); the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); the
Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions; Commonwealth of Dominica
Network of International Scholars; St Kitts and Nevis Network of International
Scholars; the International Law Association (British Branch); Public Administration
International (London); Oxford Research Group (ORG); Institute for Leadership and
Management (London); Reach Society (London); Good-of-All (USA); Asian Institute
for Alternative Dispute Resolution(AiADR); and with The Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators (London).

He coached and mentored Sagee Sasikumar, and Sethu Nandakumar for the
International Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Competition. The pair who were his
students, both studying for the Master’s degree in International Economic Law at the
University of Warwick Law School in 2002 won in Spain the European round of the
world-wide competition and went on to represent Europe in Texas, USA at the final
stage of the competition which was adjudicated by judges of the International Court
of Justice (ICJ).

This was the first time in its eleven-year history that the European round of the
Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition had been won by students
studying at a British University. To achieve that, Sagee and Sethu first had to win the
UK round of the Competition held in London.

Candidates had to assume the role of lawyers using current law to present legal
arguments on behalf of international clients in fictitious cases set in the near future.
The main fictitious case concerned a dispute which arises over issues of surveillance
from space and which escalates into conflict and damage to satellite equipment and
space stations. The competition or “Moot” was named in memory of Manfred Lachs,
the renowned Polish educator, diplomat, and jurist, space law expert and longest-
serving member of the International Court of Justice.

Benedict is intensively involved in international fora and has given legal
opinions, reports and presentations on contemporary legal issues at various places,
including: The United Nations - Geneva; State House, Commonwealth of Dominica;
The Second World Conference on International Arbitration - Qatar International
Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration; Human Rights & Justice Movement (IHAK) -
Istanbul, Turkey; National Human Rights Council of Morocco; The London School of
Economics; Birmingham University; Hull University; Brunel University; The University
of Peshawar, Pakistan; Abo Akademi Institute of Human Rights - Turku, Finland;
Hawasa University, Ethiopia; Potchefstroom University, South Africa; Faculty of Law
- Giessen University, Germany; etc. etc. He has held visiting Professorships at Louis
D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Faculty of Law,
University of Cape Town - South Africa; and Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen,
Germany.

Academic Qualifications include:
    Ph.D. in Law - The University of Nottingham, UK (1998). Published in 2001 by
     Ashgate, Aldershot, UK - Legitimacy Deficit in Custom: A Deconstructionist
     Critique.

    LL.M. with Distinction & Best Performance Award - The University of Hull, UK
     (1994

    B.A. Hons. Law & Psychology - The University of Keele, UK (1993)

    Arbitrator - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, UK (2016)

    Performance Coach & Mentor, Institute of Leadership & Management,
     London, UK (2014)

Professional Roles include:
Academician

Arbitration Practitioner

Performance Coach & Mentor

Consultant on Investment Arbitration; Commercial Arbitration; Human Rights; and
Academic Programmes Development & Review

Research areas include:
      Specific issues in Constitutional & Administrative Law; and
       Constitutionalization Theory
      Public International Law & International Human Rights Law
      Theory and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration

   International Investment Law and Practice
      International Dispute Settlement
      Jurisprudence

Research Interests include:
Jurisprudence, in particular, the validity, legitimacy and sustainability of legal
processes and practices; Development and enforcement of International Human
Rights Law, especially, individual, constitutional, and labour rights; Law making
processes, especially customary International Law; and Regional and International
Institutions and processes.

Benedict is jurisconsult on Public International Law, Commercial Arbitration; Foreign
Direct Investment; African Union Law and SADC Reconstruction policy and practice.

Research supervision:
Benedict has supervised to successful completion over 20 Ph.D. candidates in the
UK. Their research examined complex issues on International Organization; Public
International Law; Dispute Settlement in International Law; WTO and Human Rights;
Labour Law; Investment Law; etc.

He has examined in excess of 30 Ph.D. candidates mostly in the UK and also in
Germany, South Africa and Namibia.

Select Publications include:
Published Peer reviewed research monographs (books):
   Chigara, B. (2001) Legitimacy Deficit in Custom: A deconstructionist critique.
      Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISSN 10: 0-7546-2077-8 ISSN 13:
      9780754620778
   Chigara, B. (2002) Amnesty in International Law: The Legality under
      International Law of National Amnesty Laws. London: Longman. ISSN 10:
      0582437938 ISSN 13: 9780582437937
   Chigara, B. (2004) Land reform policy: The challenge of international human
      rights law. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 10: 0754622932. ISBN 13:
      9780754622932.
   Chigara, B. (2012) Southern African Development Community Land Issues:
      Towards A New Sustainable Land Relations Policy. London: Routledge. ISSN
      13: 9780203806562
   Chigara, B. (2012) Reconceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium:
      Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy. Routledge. ISSN 10:
      0415587042 ISSN 13: 9780415587044
   Chigara, B. (2021) Fairness Test: Moral & Legal Imperatives (Forthcoming)

Published Peer reviewed Journal Articles:

   Chigara, B. (2019) "Towards a nemo judex in parte sua critique of the
    International Criminal Court?" International Criminal Law Review, 19 (3). pp.
    412 - 444. ISSN: 1571-8123
   Chigara, B. (2018) “Operation Restore Legacy renders Southern African
    Development Community (SADC) constitutionalism suspect in the coup d'état
    that was not a coup” Oregon Review of International Law, 20 (1). pp. 173 -
    217. ISSN: 1543-9860
   Chigara, B. (2018) "National Courts and the Integrity of International
    Law” California Western International Law Journal, 48 (2). pp. 190 -
    218.ISSN: 0886-3210
   Chigara, B. (2017) “The administration of International Law in national courts
    and the legitimacy of International Law”' International Criminal Law Review,
    17 (5). pp. 909 - 934. ISSN: 1571-8123
   Chigara, B. (2017) “Incommensurabilities of the Southern African
    Development Community (SADC) Land Issue” African Journal of International
    & Comparative Law, 25 (3). pp. 295 - 325. ISSN: 0954-8890
   Chigara, B. (2012) “What should a re-constituted Southern African
    Development Community (SADC) Tribunal be mindful of to succeed?” Nordic
    Journal of International Law, 81 (3). pp. 341 - 377. ISSN: 0902-7351
   Chigara, B. (2011) “European/Southern African Development Community
    (SADC) states' bilateral investment agreements (BITs) for the promotion and
    protection of foreign investments vs post-apartheid SADC economic and
    social reconstruction policy” Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, 10
    (3). pp. 213 - 242. ISSN: 1477-0024
   Chigara, B. (2009) “On the jurisprudential significance of the emergent state
    practice concerning foreign nationals merely suspected of involvement with
    terrorist offences” Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 16
    (3). pp. 315 - 340. ISSN: 1023-263X
   Chigara, B. (2009) “Southern African Development Community (SADC)
    tribunal: Mike Campbell (Pvt) Ltd and Others v. Republic of Zimbabwe:
    introductory note by Ben Chigara” International Legal Materials, 48 (3). pp.
    530 - 548.
   Chigara, B. (2008) “Social justice: The link between trade liberalization and
    Sub-Saharan Africa’s potential to achieve the United Nations Millennium
    Development Goals by 2015” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 26 (1).
    pp. 9 - 42. ISSN: 0169-3441
   Chigara, B. (2007) “Book Review: Noortmann, M. (2005). Enforcing
    international law: From self-help to self-contained regimes. Aldershot, UK:
    Ashgate, Pp. vii, 194” International Criminal Justice Review, 17 (2). pp. 131 -
    132. ISSN: 1057-5677
   Chigara, B. (2007) “Latecomers to the ILO and the authorship and ownership
    of the international labour code” Human Rights Quarterly, 29 (3). pp. 706 -
    726. ISSN: 0275-0392
   Chigara, B. (2007) “To discount human rights and inscribe them with fakeness
    and unreliability, or to uphold them and engrave them with integrity and
    reliability? – UK experiences in the age of international terrorism” Nordic
    Journal of Human Rights, 25 (1). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 1891-8131
   Chigara, B. (2007) “The unfinished business of human rights protection and
    the increasing threat of international terrorism” Asian Yearbook of
    International Law, 13. pp. 3 - 22.

   Chigara, B. (2007) “Land Rights and Human Rights in Transitional
       States” Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, 11 (1). ISSN: 1027-4375
      Chigara, B. (2006) “Short-circuiting international law” Oregon Review of
       International Law, 8 (2). pp. 191 - 214. ISSN: 1543-9860
      Chigara, B. (2004) “The right to democratic entitlement: Time for
       change?” Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, 8 (1). pp. 53 - 89. ISSN:
       1027-4375
      Chigara, B. (2003) “The contest for labels in the Southern African
       Development Community (SADC) land issue” Nordic Journal of International
       Law, 72 (3). pp. 369 - 397. ISSN: 0902-7351
      Chigara, B. (2002) “Trade Liberalization: Saviour or Scourge of SADC
       Economies?” University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review,
       10 (1). pp. 7 - 21. ISSN: 1551-3289
      Chigara, B. (2002) “Peace Agreements and Human Rights” Modern Law
       Review, 65 (1). ISSN: 0026-7961
      Chigara, B. (2001) “Genocide” British Yearbook of International Law,
       72. ISSN: 0068-2691
      Chigara, B. (2001) “Building the Rule of Law” International and Comparative
       Law Quarterly, 50 (4). pp. 1007. ISSN: 0020-5893
      Chigara, B. (2001) “Humanitarian Intervention Missions: Elementary
       Considerations, Humanity and the Good Samaritans” Australian Journal of
       International Law. pp. 66 - 89. ISSN: 1325-5029
      Chigara, B. (2001) “From Oral to Recorded Governance: Reconstructing Title
       to Real Property in 21st Century Zimbabwe” Common Law World
       Review/Anglo American Law Review, 30 (1). pp. 36 - 65. ISSN: 1473-7795
      Chigara, B. (2000) “International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and
       Customary International Law” Loyola of Los Angeles Comparative and
       International Law Review, 22 (4). pp. 433 - 452. ISSN: 1533-5860
      Chigara, B. (2000) “Operation of the SADC Protocol on Politics, Defence and
       Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo” African Journal of International
       and Comparative Law, 12 (1). pp. 58 - 69. ISSN: 0954-8890
      Chigara, B. (1999) “The SAD Community – a litmus test for the UN’s resolve
       to banish oppression: Remarks on the Southern African Development
       Community (SADC) Protocol on Politics, Defence and Security (1977)” African
       Journal of International and Comparative Law, 11 (3). pp. 522 - 528. ISSN:
       0954-8890
      Chigara, B. (1998) “Margaret Davies, Delimiting the Law: Postmodernism and
       the Politics of Law, London: Pluto Press” Modern Law Review, 61. pp. 121 -
       123.
      Chigara, B. (1995) “Human Rights: International Rights, Absolute Rights,
       Inalienable Rights” African Journal of International and Comparative Law. pp.
       358 - 363. ISSN: 0954-8890
      Chigara, B. (1995) “Article 2 of Convention No.87: Precepts and Their
       Application, a Global Assessment” Managerial Law Journal, 37 (6). pp. 1 - 20.
      Chigara, B. (1994) “International aspects of Industrial Democracy” Managerial
       Law Journal, 36 (2). pp. 1 - 16.

Published Peer reviewed Book Chapters:

   Chigara, B (2020) ‘African Union and the International Criminal Law’ in Amao et al.
       Emergent African Union Law: Conceptualization, Delimitation, and Application OUP,
       Oxford.
      Chigara, B. and Asante, A. (2015) 'Emergent Maritime Labour Law: Possible
       Implications for other Transnational Labour Fields', in Blackett, A. and
       Trebilcock, A. (eds.) Research Handbook on Transnational Labour
       Law. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 343 - 360. ISBN 13:
       9781782549789.
      Chigara, B. (2012) ‘Deconstructing Southern African Development Community
       land relations challenges: Towards a new, sustainable land relations policy?’,
       in Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium: Towards a new
       sustainable land relations policy. London: Routledge. pp. 198 - 230. ISBN 13:
       9780203806562.
      Chigara, B. (2012) ‘Introduction: deconstructing land relations issues of the
       SADC’, in Southern African Development Community Land Issues: Towards a
       new sustainable land relations policy. London: Routledge. pp. 3 - 7.
      Chigara, B. (2012) ‘Tentative Reflections on the African Charter on Human
       and Peoples' Rights’, in The African Regional Human Rights System 30 Years
       after the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The Hague:
       Martinus Nijhoff. , 107. pp. 401 - 419. ISBN 13: 978-90-04-21814-7.
      Chigara, B. (2011) ‘The Humwe principle: A social-ordering grundnorm for
       Zimbabwe and Africa?’, in Essays in African Land Law Vol.1. Pretoria:
       Pretoria University Law Press (World Bank Project). pp. 113 - 133.
      Chigara, B. (2011) ‘The ILO and 'Human Security' of Sub-Saharan African
       Labour’, in Protecting Human Security in Africa. Oxford University Press. pp.
       81 - 101. ISBN 13: 9780199578986.
      Chigara, B. (2010) ‘The ILO, harbinger and chief protagonist for the
       recognition and promotion of the inherent dignity of Sub-Saharan Africa
       labour’, in Abass, A. (ed.) Protecting Human Security in Africa. Oxford
       University Press. ISBN 10: 0199578982. ISBN 13: 9780199578986.
      Chigara, B. (2008) ‘Terra nullius’, in Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) The
       New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press. pp. 1160 -
       1161. ISBN 10: 0199290547. ISBN 13: 978-0-19-929054-3.
      Chigara, B. (2008) ‘The ILO’s contribution to the development of international
       human rights law and human security in Sub-Saharan Africa’, in ILO Century
       Project: Ideas, Policies and Progress.
      Chigara, B. (2007) ‘The advent of proportional human rights and the dignity
       inherent in individuals qua human beings’, in Rehman, J. and Breau, SC.
       (eds.) Religion and human rights law: A critical examination of Islamic law and
       practice. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. , 6. pp. 223 - 245. ISBN 10:
       90 04 15826 X. ISBN 13: 978 90 04 15826 9.
      Chigara, B. (2000) ‘Pinochet and the Administration of International Criminal
       Justice’, in Woodhouse, D. (ed.) The Pinochet Case: A legal and
       Constitutional Analysis. Hart Publishing. pp. 115 - 128.

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