There are two legal jurisdictions in Qatar with laws containing specific provisions related to arbitration: the State of Qatar and the Qatar Financial Center (the “QFC”). The latter is a separate…
January 28, 2011 – violent protests rocked Egypt;
February 2, 2011 – political anxiety and ongoing unrest in Egypt threaten to shake other economies;
February 11, 2011 – Mubarak resigned.
March 22,…
At the recent Northwestern Law School conference on the Israeli-Arab Dispute and International Law I had the good fortune to address one of the few bright spots in current Arab-Israeli relations…
The most commonly used form of construction contract in the Gulf is the FIDIC form. Although the FIDIC forms, for project procurement and consultantcy services, progressed slowly over the years,…
Constructively, commercial arbitration is a judicially recognized and an enforced method of dispute resolution in the UAE.
Via Article 203 (5) of the Civil Procedure Law (1992), if the parties have…
On a first reading this might seem like a particularly narrow question. Perhaps geographically of limited utility.
But to almost every international organization in the industrial, defence and major…
Professor Roger Alford’s recent posting, “The Arbitrator as Diplomat”, discusses the role of “diplomatic arbitration,” a concept with a long historical pedigree. Some of that history (and much more…
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court decided Iran v. Elahi, a case that appears to fall within a data set of one. As I reported elsewhere, the case is extraordinarily complex, focusing on…
"...so many construction disputes are now heading towards arbitration" remarks the calling notice for the next Society of Construction Law-Gulf event in Dubai in April. Around the world, the…