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Lex:lead

Lawyers for Economic Advancement and Development

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About Lex:lead

Lex:lead was founded in 2010 to continue the work of the Global Challenge, a group that had formed in 2001 under the International Bar Association to bring lawyers worldwide to the issue of development focusing on the least developed countries. Joining the Global Challenge in 2005, Anne was named its director. In 2010 the founding members set up Lex:lead as a New York Not-for-Profit registered charity with US Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.

Lex:lead Directors/Officers:

Anne Bodley

Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Rudolf Ezeani

President/Director/Founder
Queen Mary University of London, London UK.

Rudolf Ezeani

Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Rudolf Ezeani

First Vice President/Director

Principal with Rudy Ezeani & Co., Lagos, Nigeria.

Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Vice President/Director, Deputy Treasurer

US Federal Government, Washington DC.

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

 Vice President/Director

Royal United Services Institute, London UK. 

Catherine Maunder

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Catherine Maunder

 Vice President/Director

Work experience from the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) Beirut Lebanon.  

Daniella Geller

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Catherine Maunder

 Officer/Treasurer

Netflix, Los Angeles USA. 

Sipho Limbe

Ashley Houlihan

Ashley Houlihan

 Officer/Deputy Group Secretary

Formerly UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania. 

Ashley Houlihan

Ashley Houlihan

Ashley Houlihan

 Officer/Senior Group Secretary

University of Denver, Denver CO, USA 

SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD

Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

Patron, formerly UK High Court, London UK.

Stuart Kerr

Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

President, International Law Institute, Washington DC, USA.

Yev Muchnik

Hon Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

Nancy Kaymar Stafford

 Founding Partner, Launch Legal, Denver CO, USA. 

Nancy Kaymar Stafford

Nancy Kaymar Stafford

Nancy Kaymar Stafford

Immediate Past Chair, American Bar Association (ABA) International Law Section Council, Washington DC, USA  

Pieter Steyn

Nancy Kaymar Stafford

Chris Edwards

 Partner with Werksmans and Chair of the LEX Africa Alliance, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Chris Edwards

Nancy Kaymar Stafford

Chris Edwards

  Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity Director, Travers Smith, London UK 

Matt Sparkes

David Dunnigan

David Dunnigan

Global Head of Sustainability, Linklaters,

London UK

David Dunnigan

David Dunnigan

David Dunnigan

Senior Consultant, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

London UK

Danielle White

David Dunnigan

Danielle White

Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Mayer Brown International, London UK

Anurag Bana

In Memoriam: Stephen Denyer

Danielle White

Senior Legal Advisor

International Bar Association, London UK

Tyler Holmes

In Memoriam: Stephen Denyer

In Memoriam: Stephen Denyer

Senior Legal Advisor / Program Manager

ABA Rule of Law Initiative, Washington DC

In Memoriam: Stephen Denyer

In Memoriam: Stephen Denyer

In Memoriam: Stephen Denyer

Director of Strategic Relationships at the Law Society of England and Wales, London UK.

Advisory Board

• Dr Sabine Midderhoff (Germany) (2011), GIZ, Lusaka Zambia

• Ashley Houlihan (USA), Denver, Colorado, USA

• Sarah Elias Akech (South Sudan), Kampala, Uganda

• Mr Brent Steurs (Belgium), Berlin, Germany

• Mr Akila Tilitho (Tanzania), Arusha, Tanzania

Join Lex:lead!

The group welcomes applications to join its work, typically through appointments to its advisory board. To join us complete the attached form and email it to us at lexlead@yahoo.com.  Thank you!

Lex:lead Membership Application Forms (pdf)Download

Contact us

To join our mailing list or address any questions to us, contact:

Lex:lead
302A W12 Street, No 280
New York, New York 10014, USA

Old address (expired 24 March 2015):
676A Ninth Avenue No 109
New York, New York 10036, USA

London address:
95 Wilton Road No 364
London SW1V 1BZ, UK

The Global Challenge can be reached at:
Email: theglobalchallenge@yahoo.com 

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Lex:lead Newsletters:

December 2010: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2011: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2012: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2013: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2014: End-of-year newsletter (bumper issue!) (pdf)Download
December 2015: End-of-year newsletter (winner profiles!) (pdf)Download
December 2016: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2017: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2018: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2019: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2020 End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2021 End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2022 End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2023: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2024: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download

Other publications:

  • May 2016: 2014 Winner Bereket Alemayehu Hagos, Is ADR a Knell for Litigation in Africa? See: International Bar Association
  • Sept 2016: Lex:lead: Foundation Fund ing Launches Annual Scholarship Competition, See: International Bar Association Foundation
  • Sept 2017: Charity: Changing Legal Lives, See: Law Society Gazette
  • July 2019: Taxation in Digital Services: Uganda's Social Media Tax Law, by Moses Baguma, (World Bank GFLJD newsletter)
  • July 2019: American Bar Association International Legal Developments Year in Review (2018), Africa (p.465)
  • Feb 2021: The Legal Impact of Covid19, American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law
  • Aug 2021: American Bar Association International Legal Developments (Year in Review) (2020), August 2021
  • Jul 2023: American Bar Association International Legal Developments (Year in Review) (2022), July 2023
  • Nov 2021: A&O Alumni Week, Introducing Lex:lead, founders' panel here

International Bar Association (pdf)Download
International Bar Association Foundation (pdf)Download
Law Society Gazette (pdf)Download
Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development newsletter (pdf)Download
ABA COVID19 Newsletter (12Feb2021) (pdf)Download
Year in Review v55 2020 (Aug2021) (pdf)Download
Year in Review 2021 (10Aug2022) (pdf)Download
Year in Review 2022-v57 (26July2023) (pdf)Download
Year in Review2023-v58 (28AG2024) (pdf)Download

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"The opportunities and award I got from Lex:lead were indispensable in my progress and I would like to encourage my fellow Lex:leaders to seriously pursue them," 2014 Scholarship Winner and appellate judge Nahom Abraham Weldeabzgi (Eritrea), April 2019.


'[The Lex:lead award helped] a whole lot. If I hadn't paid that much I would have lost my place in school. I would have dropped out [but] paying the money I was awarded [...] bought me some time to source [funds] for this year's registration [...] The award was what helped me.... thank you so much again,' 2017 Scholarship Winner Nkandu Kunda Chota (Zambia), February 2018.

Other programs we want to tell you about:

1. International Lawyers for Africa, www.ilfa.org.uk
2. International Law Book Facility, www.ilbf.org.uk
3. Inherit Your Rights, www.inherityourrights.org
4. The Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development (www.globalforumljd.org) (we're a member)

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