PROFILE OF THE AUTHORS
(Article Reference: Document No.6, July 1999)

 

Bolaji OWASANOYE has fourteen years of professional experience as a legal practitioner, lecturer and researcher (from 1985 to 1999) as well as Undergraduate and Graduate teacher and Tutorial Master. As a Research Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) he has researched several aspects of law and served as faculty member of the Institute's Continuing Legal Education Programmes on Legal and Legislative Drafting, Negotiation of International Contracts, Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management, Human Rights, and Judicial Education and Capacity Building Programmes for Financial and Capital Market Operators. Since 1995, he is also a UNICEF consultant on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child involved in developing Children Legislation for Nigeria. Since 1995, he has also been Head of the Department of Commercial and Property Law which is responsible for packaging and implementing programmes on Economic and Regulation Laws in Nigeria. He is also an Associate Research Professor since 1998. Mr. Owasanoye has published several articles and books relating to debt and financial management issues.

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Daniel D. BRADLOW is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Programme at the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C. where he specializes in international economic law. His current scholarship focuses on the international financial institutions, the international legal aspects of sustainable and equitable development, and the legal aspects of debt and financial management. He has been a Senior Special Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and serves as an advisor to the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project. In 1996 he was a Visiting Professor at The Community Law Centre at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. He has lectured in many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America on international financial law and international business law issues. Prior to joining WCL, Professor Bradlow was a Research Associate at the International Law Institute and a consultant to the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, as well as an attorney in private practice. He has edited books and published articles on international financial law, the international financial institutions, foreign investment, the World Bank Inspection Panel, and the changing responsibilities of the World Bank and the IMF in the management of the global economy. Professor Bradlow holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, Northeastern University and Georgetown University and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars.

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