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 ...

Since the Lisbon Treaty’s entry into force in 2009, the Common & Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) retains its intergovernmental character, although its legal status is no longer separate from but part of a single European ...

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 ...

Religion and law are often portrayed as belonging to different, isolated spheres and as conflicting with each other, especially with regard to the process of governing today's global economic and political affairs. The ...

This paper analyses the regulatory regime potentially applicable to the prepaid m-payments for m-content before and after the introduction of the Electronic Money Directive (2009) and the Payment Services Directive (2009). ...

قضية اللاجئين الفلسطينيين واحدة من أهم القضايا المعاصرة في نطاق القانون الدولي للاجئين. ومع ذلك شهدت هذه القضية ضعفًا وهشاشة من حيث الرعاية والحماية القانونية نتيجة التفسير الضيق لقواعد القانون الدولي للاجئين من قِبل الأطراف ...

إن التطور الاقتصادي والاجتماعي الذي تشهده دولة قطر كغيرها من دول العالم قد أدى إلى ظهور معاملات تجارية لم تكن معروفة من قبل، مما يقتضي معها استحداث محاكم تجارية متخصصة في القضايا ذات الطابع التجاري، وتتسم بالسرعة والفعالية. ...

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 ...

This article uses the Pakistani Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Act of 2010 (Act of 2010) as an example to discuss the use of ad hoc legislation on issues of violence against women in Pakistan. From 2008 to 2011, ...

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 ...