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Mr. Frank Zephrine Baguma

Assistant Lecturer

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I'm currently an Assistant lecturer Laws; I assist in teaching Intellectual property law, Business Law, Commercial Law, legal research jurisprudence/philosophy of law, legal research, constitutional and legal systems, private international law, mercantile law, communication skills, legal ethics and judicial practice,Banking law and negotiable instruments and land law  among other law subjects. I did my Masters Degree in Procedural law and International legal practice( commercial arbitration) at the University of Dar es Salaam (LLM PILP) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the Ruaha Catholic University(RUCU) formerly (RuCo), Iringa, Tanzania.

  • My research interests are on commercial law (international commercial arbitration), the role of party autonomy in international contracts subject to cross border Investments in EAC.
  • I worked at Ruaha Catholic University for Five years, where I taught business law courses together with other relevant legal courses including, jurisprudence, legal research, and mercantile law, legal systems of East Africa, Arbitration law and land law.
  • I also managed to have administrative responsibility where I worked as a head of Practicum Unit where I was able to work in a team and managed to supervise students in different places in the field. We allocated students to respective field areas and supervised them to a level of an output of a report. This was for the undergraduate and diploma students.
  • While at Rucu I was in a taskforce in preparing new programs and short courses, where we were able to come up with new programs including LL.B with Human Resource Management and LL.B with Forensic Investigation.
  •  In 2016- I managed to work with the University of Iringa as an Assistant Lecturer in law, where I taught different legal courses including law of contract, sales of goods law, legal system, legal research and Banking and Intellectual property law. Apart from teaching I was assigned with the responsibilities as the Head of Private Law which I served in two years. I was able to supervise my colleagues and students affected with the private law department in teaching and research writing.