This book is the first and only comprehensive examination of current and future legal principles designed to govern oil and gas activity in Iraq. This study provides a thorough-going review of every conceivable angle on Iraqi oil and gas law, from relevant provisions of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005; to legislative measures comprising the oil and gas framework law, the revenue sharing law, and the laws to reconstitute the Iraq National Oil Company and reorganize the Ministry of Oil; to th...

This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot view of Iraq's outstanding debt obligations and an analysis of the significance of the theory of odious debt in the context of the Iraqi situation, the list of legal issues examined includes relevant provisions of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005, controlling Security Council resolutions, pertinent artic...

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.The government is expanding.Taxes are increasing.More senseless wars are being planned.Inflation is ballooning.Our basic freedoms are disappearing.The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in...

Arbitration has become the dispute resolution method of choice in international transactions. This book provides the reader with immediate access to understanding the world of international arbitration, explaining how and why arbitration works. It provides the legal and regulatory framework for international arbitration, as well as practical strategies to follow and pitfalls to avoid. It is short and readable, but comprehensive in its coverage of the basic requirements, including the most ...

Reaching past the secrecy so often met in arbitration, the second edition of this commentary explains clearly and fully the workings of the UNCITRAL Rules of Arbitral Procedure recommended for use in 1976 by the United Nations. This new edition fully takes account of the revised Rules adopted in 2010 while maintaining coverage of the original Rules where these remain relevant. The differences between the old and the new Rules are clearly indicated and explained. Pulling together difficult ...

After simmering in the background through the nineties, Iraq burst into the awareness of many when it became a battleground against the war on terror under the Bush administration. Few realize that in the midst of the fierce policy battles, one partially implemented state-building exercise took root, and Iraq became the first country in the Middle East, democracy or otherwise, to have a constitutionally mandated independent judicial branch.In The Judiciary in Iraq, Madhata...

Iran-United States Claims Tribunal Reports, published by Grotius Publications, Cambridge University Press, comprising hitherto thirty-eight volumes. They are available on the shelves of all law and certain major courts and public libraries across the world. The main objective of the author in this work is to make the Tribunal's case law readily accessible through a systematic presentation of legal issues along with handy references to the volumes, pages, and paragraphs of the source as app...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin delivers a "bracing meditation” (National Review) on the ways our government has failed the next generation.In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous p...

Mark R. Levin has made the case, in numerous bestselling books that the principles undergirding our society and governmental system are unraveling. In The Liberty Amendments, he turns to the founding fathers and the constitution itself for guidance in restoring the American republic.The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the delegates to each state’s ratification convention foresaw a time when the Federal government might breach the Consti...

This “intelligent nonpartisan guide” sheds light on the murky world of politics and the perennial issues that affect our everyday lives (Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin).In a world of sound bites, deliberate misinformation, and a political scene colored by the blue versus red partisan divide, how does the average American find a reliable source of information that’s free of political spin? What You Should Know About Politics . . . But Don’t

This book provides an analysis of how commercial and banking disputes can be settled under the Islamic regime for arbitration. The work focuses on the Saudi legal system as representative of Shari'a law in commercial and banking arbitration, and where relevant, makes comparisons with the settlement of banking disputes in Egypt and the UAE. Shari'a Law in Commercial and Banking Arbitration provides a general introduction to the Saudi law and to the main principles and sources of Islamic Sha...

This edition, approximately 320 pages in physical form including the appendices, is updated with recent decisions of the Philippine Supreme Court involving or affecting the Shari'a courts as well as pertinent amendments to the Rules of Court of the Philippines. The "Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines" and the "Organic Act for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao," which are the basic laws governing the Muslims in the Philippines, are appended in the edition for reference.