The NAU Law Review

Chinyere Ossy-Okoye Abstract The best secured financing minimises credit risk during insolvency. Financiers leverage contractual autonomy to negotiate hard-fought security packages that secure early credit recovery ahead of other creditors upon insolvency, therereducing overall credit risk. However, contractual autonomy suffers legal constraints. Courts may recharacterise ‘hard-fought” contractual...

Grace Aduragbemi Ikudaisi, LLB (Hons), BL  Abstract   The Persons with Significant Control Regulations, 2022 (“PSC Regulations”) aims to address concerns about the impervious nature of business ownership, where only the legal and not necessarily, the beneficial owners of an entity’s shares are recorded, or disclosed to the public. The PSC Regulations requires all corporate entities to give...

Ekhorutomwen Gabriel Ekhator  Abstract   One of the benefits of the internet over other means of communication is that it enables easy access to a wide-reaching audience. Spatial distance and national borders are irrelevant to the formation of electronic contracts. With the internet as a distinctive marketplace in terms of market penetration, any computer, anywhere in the world, connected...

Ater, Solomon Vendaga  Abstract Environmental challenges have become one of the increasingly complicated global realities affecting us today that require deliberately innovative and radical approaches for their solution. Globally, there is a commitment to reducing the emissions of gasses to net zero 2050. However laudable this pledge is, it may amount to nothing unless conscious efforts...

Akinyode P.O, Alade K. O, Aremu O. M, Chukwuma C.B, Odeyemi O. B, and Phillip H. I.   Abstract  Prior to the colonization of Nigeria, customary arbitration had always been the accepted means of dispute resolution. This changed drastically with the establishment of the court system the colonial masters. Today, there are two types of arbitration in Nigeria: customary and modern arbitration...