Deals with mining, forestry and investment law in the DRC: Mining law, arbitration, corruption, state liability strategic role of solicitor

The decision to tackle simultaneously investment law, mining law, forestry law, environmental law, domestic and international litigation, as well as the cross-cutting issues of governance, corruption and judicial and administrative insecurity, stems from a deep-seated conviction: investment cannot be secured by a fragmented reading of the law. It requires a systemic approach, integrating legal, institutional, economic, social and human dimensions.The book deliberately adopts a sometimes critical, sometimes committed tone. This positioning is neither polemical nor ideological. It stems from an intellectual and ethical imperative: to name dysfunctions in order to correct them more effectively. Legal silence, when it becomes complacent, is a form of renunciation. The law can only fulfill its regulatory mission if it accepts to confront reality, however uncomfortable it may be. Particular attention is paid to investment litigation and dispute settlement, not as an end in itself, but as an indicator of the fragility of the economic rule of law.