Rugemeleza Nshala, SJD candidate Harvard Law School.
| Rugemeleza Nshala, is a Doctor of Juridical Studies (S.J.D) candidate at Harvard Law School. He holds a Bachelors of Laws Degree (LL.B) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (his home country), which he obtained in 1993; the Masters of Laws Degree (LL.M) from Harvard Law School and Masters of Environmental Management (MEM) from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies that he obtained in 1997 and 2007, respectively. In 1994, he co-founded Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT), one of the first public interest environmental law organizations in eastern and central Africa. Its formation spurred the formation of similar organizations in other African countries. His dissertation focus is on the regulatory and tax law reforms in the mining industry in African countries. This issue is important because African countries have, since the late 1980s, amended their mining and tax laws to pave the way for foreign investment in the sector, often at the urging of the World Bank. They have also privatized their state-owned mining companies. For his research, Mr. Nshala has carried out field research in Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana. He has also undertaken extensive research of FDI and negative repercussions of investment incentives on mineral-rich countries. Source : http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/africagsd/opportunity_neocolonialism.html |