College of Law
Dr Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa
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Key information
- Roles
- College of Law Deputy Dean for Learning and Teaching College of Law Senior Lecturer in Law
- Department
- College of Law
- Qualifications
- LLB (Kinshasa); LLM (Indiana); PhD (SOAS)
- Office
- S222
- Email address
- jb89@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa is Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Dean for Learning and Teaching at the College of Law. He holds law degrees from Université Protestante au Congo (DRC), an LLM from Indiana University (USA), and a PhD from SOAS. His career spans higher education, the private sector, and international development, including roles as Postdoctoral Research Officer at the LSE and Lecturer in Law in the DRC.
Jonathan’s research examines how law shapes regional integration and development in Africa, drawing on critical international economic law, inequality, and political economy. His monograph, Regional Developmentalism Through International Law: Establishing an African Economic Community (Routledge, 2018), stems from his PhD research.
His recent work covered commercial law harmonisation within OHADA, regional industrialisation in West Africa, as well as Africa's trade relations with key partners, including the UK. His current research focuses on public authority in governing both formal and informal cross-border trade, using socio-legal and comparative methods. His focus areas are Central, East, and Southern Africa.
Research interests
International economic law; OHADA law; law and development (especially market creation/market integration, governance, and regional development in Sub-Saharan Africa); regionalism; international inequality.
