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A Code of Conduct for Tourists Visiting Qatar for the World Cup 2022
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)This Code of Conduct for Tourist who are visiting Qatar for the World Cup 2022 covers the fundamental rights and duties that must be observed and implemented such as the right to movement, travel and safety and obtaining ... -
Codifying the corporate opportunity doctrine: The (UK) Companies Act 2006
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)Part 10 of the UK Companies Act 2006 codifies the fiduciary and common law duties of directors as a means of addressing the key policy considerations which underpinned the company law reform project launched by the Labour ... -
Colonial cleansing: Laws for a summer resort in China
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)In the leased territory of Weihaiwei, China (1898–1930), public health and related laws played an important part in the local British government’s effort to create and maintain a summer resort for European visitors. These ... -
A comparative examination of the Qatar Financial Center (QFC) consumer dispute resolution scheme
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2017 , Conference Paper)In 2016, the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) introduced a Customer Dispute Resolution Scheme (CDRS) in Chapter 8 of the Conduct of Business Rules 2007. The CDRS is an alternative to litigation for QFC participants (retail ... -
The Composition and Writing of the Qurʾān: Old Explanations and New Evidence
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)يعارض هذا البحث الفكرة السائدة لدى الكثير من الباحثين الغربيين منذ مطلع القرن السابق بأن القرآن الكريم لم يكتمل ككتاب منزّل خلال حياة النبي بل أخذ شكله النهائي بعد وفاته بفترة غير قصيرة. ومقابل هذه الفكرة يسلط الضوء على ... -
Compromise Management: Proposed Tool For Managing Tradeoffs
( Qatar University , 2007 , Article)This paper is a conceptual sndy of trade-offs and compromises, both /rom the perspective of their formulation at the strategic level and of their daily use in worl<shops. It suggests tools that can be used for better ... -
Conditions Precedent in Farmout Agreements – An Overview
( Qatar University Press , 2019 , Article)Conditions precedent to Farmout Agreements (FOA) are critical in ensuring that an agreement is fulfilled under conditions that are protective of the parties’ interests in the agreement. Conditions precedent offer parties ... -
Constitution-making in the 21st century
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)Constitutions have been made or changed in major ways in more than half the countries of the world in recent decades. This article deals with contemporary approaches to constitution-making, organising the analysis around ... -
Constitutional rights to supervised drug injection facilities in Canada
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)On September 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered the government of Canada to continue to exempt Vancouver's supervised narcotic injection facility from Canada's criminal drug laws. The controversial clinic, known ... -
Construction mediation as a developmental process
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)This paper seeks to argue that mediation has been hitherto conceived in the construction industry, and indeed by practitioners in other related disciplines such as property management, as largely a “problem-solving” ... -
The Contagion "Disease" that affects Foreign direct investment In the MENA countries
( Qatar University , 2007 , Article)This paper aims to analyze the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investmer and different kinds of risks in the MENA countries, using the vector autoregressive tec\ on the country level for 11 MENA countries during ... -
Convergence and divergence: the treatment of certain aspects of real property under the Civil Codes of Qatar and California
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)This paper compares and contrasts the treatment of certain aspects of real property under the civil codes of Qatar and California, two jurisdictions with very different histories and cultures but somewhat less different ... -
Corporate Governance and Auditor Choice in Kuwait
( Qatar University , 2018 , Article)Although auditor choice has been studied extensively in the audit literature, research examining this issue in developing markets has been scarce thus far. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of ... -
Corporate Governance and Islamic Social Responsibility Disclosure In Kuwaiti Shariah Compliant Financial Institutions
( Qatar University , 2012 , Article)This study examines the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and the extent of Islamic social responsibility disclosure in Kuwait. The annual reports of 40 Shariah-compliant financial institutions ... -
Corporate liability for violating international law under The Alien Tort Statute: The corporation through the lens of globalization and privatization
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)The article addresses the question of whether the changing roles of “public actor” states and “private actor” corporations should impact the legal liability of corporations in international law. The classical paradigm ... -
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN QATARI FIRMS
( Qatar University , 2016 , Article)This preliminary study explores the level of adoption of CSR activities in Qatari firms. Moreover, it examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and organizational performance. The data gathered ... -
Corruption, revolution and settlement: An Egyptian story for resolving investment disputes
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2017 , Conference Paper)In 2011, a series of decisions were rendered by the High Administrative Court at the Egyptian State Council in which the court considered void the privatization of a few public companies which had been transferred to ... -
Courting Islam: The Evolution of Perceptions of Islam within the British and American governments from the European Colonial period to the War on Terror
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This article explores the changing attitudes to, and perceptions of Islam that developed over a period in which substantive engagements between Anglo-American strategic interests brought them more and more into ... -
COURTING TOURISTS: ESTABLISHING A TOURIST-SPECIFIC JUDICIAL BODY IN QATAR
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)A key element of attracting tourists to any country is the promise of safety and security. One of the great fears weighing on the minds of tourists is being embroiled in the legal system of a foreign land. As with attracting ... -
Crimes of Electronic Defamation, Libel, and Slander under Jordanian Cybercrimes Law
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Article)This article aims to examine how the Jordanian Cybercrimes Law (No. 27 of 2015) addresses the crimes of electronic defamation, libel, and slander, to develop a better understanding of how these crimes can be combatted, as ...