Browsing QU Current Journals by Publisher "Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals"
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Access to justice for women victims of domestic violence in the Republic of Macedonia
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)In the recent decades as a result of feminist efforts, significant progress in addressing the issue of domestic violence on the international scene, as well as, on the national level have been made. However, there are still ... -
Admissibility conditions of a constitutional suit in the Islamic judicial system
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)A constitutional Suit, like any other Suit, must satisfy certain conditions, and while there are common and general conditions applicable to all types of Suits, there are special conditions that are only relevant to a ... -
Assessing the relevance of multilateral trade law to sovereign investments: Sovereign Wealth Funds as “investors” under the General Agreement on Trade in Services
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)The variety of investments made by powerful Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) is often directed to the globally booming service sector which is regulated by the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This paper ... -
Bring the vessel to court: The unique feature of the action in rem in the admiralty law proceedings
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Admiralty law, one of the oldest fields of law, has developed distinctive and unique features that distinguish it from other fields. One of these characteristics originates from the commencement of litigation, where a claim ... -
CFIUS post-Ralls: Ramifications for Sovereign Wealth Funds
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Global capital is on the move and sovereign wealth funds, with significant assets, are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the increase in mergers and acquisitions activity, especially in the United States. At the ... -
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 ... -
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” ... -
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 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 ... -
Dissecting the claims of legitimization for the ritual of female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM)
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2014 , Article)This work analyses the various arguments put forward by the supporters of female genital mutilation (FGM) under Islamic law to determine whether this practice has its roots in Islam, whether it is a customary or cultural ... -
Engendering a clinic: Lessons learned from a domestic violence clinical course in Qatar
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Domestic violence, a serious problem around the world, remains a hidden concern among the Islamic Gulf States. Yet signs indicate the situation is changing. A team of American lawyers and professors, responding to student ... -
Harmonizing formal requirements for cross-border sales contracts
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)Legal systems have different traditions about how to “prove” a contract for the sale of personal property. Most legal systems today permit the contract to be proved by any means but some States require that the agreement ... -
Identifying and managing risk in international construction projects
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2012 , Article)Over the last decade, major construction projects have increasingly arisen in countries or regions that lack specialist, expert construction contractors, suppliers and consultants. Steps are being taken by governments in ... -
Incipient activism of Sovereign Wealth Funds and the need to update United States securities laws
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) lie at the cutting edge of a tectonic transformation in global business and international law embodying the sweeping changes in the global order. Illustrating the new financial and legal ... -
International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) as instruments to combat corruption and enhance fiscal discipline in Developing States
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Especially since the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, once more we have seen more focused interest in the use of SWFs by home states—less as a means of projecting sovereign financial power outwards ... -
International legal obligations of armed opposition groups in Syria
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)Starting with peaceful protests of people demanding democratic reforms and fundamental rights from the regime in Damascus, the Syria crisis developed into a full-fledged civil war causing largescale death, injury, and ... -
Intra-family violence or domestic violence, a domestic relationship or merely a case of sibling rivalry: Where to draw the line?
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)In a recent judgment by the South African Supreme Court of Appeal, Daffy v. Daffy, (659/2011) [2012] ZASCA 149; [28 September 2012] 4 All SA 607 (SCA); 2013 (1) SACR 42 (SCA) the question of what exactly constitutes a ...