Akalemwa Ngenda

Law Lecturer

Qualifications

LLB (Zambia)
LLM (George Washington)
Phd (Kent)
PGCert-HE (Brunel)

Akalemwa read law in the University of Zambia, attended the George Washington University Law School, and studied at Kent Law School where he completed a doctorate in international intellectual property law, which developed a theory of the notion of power in the genealogy of knowledge within systems of thought. He is qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court, England and Wales, and has previously served as legal advisor to the World Bank-IMF Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP-Zambia). As well as being a licensed patent and trademark attorney, he has extensive experience as an Advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court in Zambia, specialising in corporate insolvency, banking, perfection and enforcement of security, employment and complex commercial litigation (with a client portfolio that included the Bank of Zambia, Citibank, Barclays Bank, HSBC, Deloitte & Touché, Grant Thornton and the Zambia Industrial & Mining Corporation (in liquidation)). Akalemwa was a Fellow of the World Intellectual Property Organisation at the National Law Centre in Washington, D.C., after which he taught at the University of Zambia Law School. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He has taught criminal law and intellectual property law in the University of Kent. He has previously served as an elected member of the Council of the Law Association of Zambia, where he also convened the Committee on Information Technology and was a member of the Civil Society Litigation Group. He was founder chairman of the Zambia Intellectual Property Trust, and previously legal chair of the Foundation for Democratic Process. Akalemwa is formerly a Physics Olympiad and High School Valedictorian. He is a qualified basketball coach and match official affiliated with the English Basketball Association and the London Basketball Coaches Network.

I am the School Disability and Health & Safety Representative.

Teaching

Criminal Law
Intellectual Property Law

Research Interests

Global intellectual property regulation
Globalisation theory
Cybercrime and electronic fraud
Critical legal theory
Theory of systems of thought and knowledge
Financial sector regulation
Legal aspects of corporate finance; venture capital; and private equity

Research Areas

Criminal law
Intellectual property
Legal theory and jurisprudence

Research Groups

IPIMRC Intellectual Property, Internet Media Research Centre

PhD Supervision

Amr M Shoukry M Helmi “Enforcement of digital copyright in Egypt”

External Activities

Associate – African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention (ACCP)

Coordinator – Books 4 Africa Project