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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Transnational power transmission and international law
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Power transmission networks are crucial. Every country requires the means to transport and deliver energy, whether produced locally or in foreign countries. The paper deals with transnational power-transmission networks, ... -
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 limits on prosecutorial discretion in Singapore: Past, present, and future
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)The exercise of prosecutorial discretion is a unique executive act that continues to be very well-protected from public scrutiny in many jurisdictions throughout the world. In this article, I attempt to survey virtually ... -
التكييف القانوني لأيلولة الأصول والخصوم من المشروع العام إلى شركة المساهمة في ظل قوانين التخصيص في الكويت: تعليق في النظرية القائمة ونظرية مقترحة
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)حدد القانون رقم 6 لسنة 2008 في شأن تحويل مؤسسة الخطوط الجوية الكويتية إلى شركة مساهمة والقانون رقم 37 لسنة 2010 في شأن تنظيم برامج وعمليات التخصيص، إجراءات تخصيص المشروعات العامة على نحو أيلولة أصول وخصوم المشروع العام إلى ... -
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 ... -
Reforms in triple talaq in the personal laws of Muslim states and the Pakistani legal system: Continuity versus change
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)This work analyses the reforms carried out in some of the Muslim states regarding the issue of triple divorce in one session. According to a majority of Sunni jurists, pronouncing the word “talaq” three times in succession, ... -
ملامح نظام الإفلاس في قانون التجارة القطري
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)إن تقنين نظام الإفلاس التجاري مما يتفق مع طبائع الحياة العامة والخاصة معاً، فالأحوال الاقتصادية في حياة الأمم لا تستقر على وتيرة واحدة، لكنها تتقلب ما بين الأزمة والرخاء، والضيق والسعة، ومثلها شؤون التاجر التي ربما دارت ... -
رشددة أنظمة ولاية العهد في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)يهدف الباحث في هذه الدراسة إلى تطوير أنظمة ولاية العهد في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي، والرجوع إلى أسس وقواعد موضوعية عند تحديد ولي العهد، يكون لشعب كل دولة، استناداً لها، دور في اختيار حاكم المستقبل. في هذه الدراسة يبرز ... -
Technology at the end of life: “Medical futility” and the Muslim PVS patient
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Advanced life-sustaining technologies can now prolong indeterminately the lives of patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). However, where the assistance rendered is not expected to restore consciousness, they are ... -
تأثير الشريعة الإسلامية على القانون المدني القطري: دراسة مقارنة
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)يصنف شراح القانون المقارن العائلات القانونية الرئيسية إلى ثلاث: العائلة اللاتينية، وعائلة القانون العام أو الانجلوسكسونية، والشريعة الإسلامية، وعلى الرغم مما يبدو ظاهريًا أن القانون المدني القطري ومعه غالبية التشريعات ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Survey of unreported cases of domestic violence in two heterogeneous communities in Nigeria
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Women in Nigeria are reluctant to report cases of domestic violence to the police. This study examines the magnitude of domestic violence in Nigeria. It also examines respondents' levels of education, culture, religion, ...
