Browsing International Review of Law by Type "Article"
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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 ... -
Accession of Lebanon to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): Lessons Learned, Analysis, and Legal Aspects of Accession
( Qatar University Press , 2018 , Article)This policy paper recommends that Lebanon should join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The EITI can benefit Lebanon by providing transparency in Lebanon’s industrial sector, which serves the public ... -
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 ... -
An Analysis of Export Restriction Rules and Proposals Under the WTO
( Qatar University Press , 2018 , Article)This memorandum is a redacted version of a confidential research paper on export restriction negotiations in relation to food security under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The complete version of this ... -
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 ... -
The Blockade of Qatar: Where Coercive Diplomacy Fails, Principles of Law Should Prevail
( Qatar University Press , 2019 , Article)Contemporary international law has developed a cautious attitude toward the use of coercive diplomacy, specifically in the deployment of economic sanctions in the form of boycotting or blockading one sovereign state by ... -
Bridge over troubled water: An emerging right to access to the internet
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2017 , Article)This article is about the internet and its place in the current international legal order. The more precise inquiry concerns identifying the probable emergence of a legal entitlement, as opposed to the predominant focus ... -
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 ... -
Champions of protection? A Text-as-data analysis of the bilateral investment treaties of GCC countries
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Article)Through the lens of state-of-the-art text-as-data techniques, this article examines the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) practice of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The analysis unveils two critical ... -
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 ... -
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” ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
