The Inevitability of Legal Flexibility over Certainty - the Case of Local Content Requirements in the Upstream Petroleum Sectors
Article from: OGEL 4 (2021), in Africa
Abstract
The article applies doctrinal methodology to evaluate Kenya's and Norway's LC requirements. It highlights how both countries pursue(d) LC requirements and focus on the individual efforts placed by each government in making markets work for locals. The work does not engage in the traditional comparative analysis of these countries legal frameworks. Instead, it categorises the different regulatory modes applied by these countries based on rules and principles. It argues that Kenya's LC requirements is a rules-based system mainly because of the systematic outline of prescriptive rules to ...