Gracious AVAYIWOE
Gracious Avayiwoe is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). As part of his PhD, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
Gracious holds an LLM in International Law and the Geneva LL.M (MIDS) in International Dispute Settlement, where he was a Lalive Scholar. He is also an alumnus of the Hague Academy of International Law and of the Global Scholars Academy of the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School.
Gracious has also held fellowships at the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Publications
Gracious Avayiwoe, ‘Evidence and the “Gravity of the Alleged Offences” for Prompt Release of Vessels and Crews under the UNCLOS Regime’ (2025) 24(2) Chinese Journal of International Law 1, 1–50, paras 1–108 (Oxford University Press).
Gracious Avayiwoe, ‘Towards Clarity: The “May Be Affected Requirement” and Non-Party Intervention at the International Court of Justice’ (2023) 14(1) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 110, 110–125 (Oxford University Press).
Gracious Avayiwoe, ‘The Republic of Ghana and Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Burgeoning Expert?’ (2020) 35(1-2) ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal 50, 50–62 (Oxford University Press).
Gracious Avayiwoe, ‘BEPS: Preferential Tax Regime for High and New Technology Enterprises – Analysis of the Deviation from the Nexus Approach’ (2018) 24 Asia Pacific Tax Bulletin 1 (IBFD).