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Commercial Arbitration In The Islamic Middle East, Art Gemmell Dr. Dec 2005

Commercial Arbitration In The Islamic Middle East, Art Gemmell Dr.

art gemmell

As any observer of the international commercial scene will attest, globalization has spawned an untold number of daily international business transactions. From these transactions, disputes arose and states worried that their domestic court system would be unable to deal with foreign commercial disputes expeditiously and equitably. In order to both address these concerns and to promote the use of international arbitration, a host of international and regional conventions was established to deal with the peaceful settlement of disputes. The Islamic Middle East has not fully embraced what might be euphemistically referred to as a“modern” arbitral system.


Negotiated Rulemaking And The Sunshine Law: Can It Help Local Law Enforcement And The Press Get Along?, Daxton R. Stewart Dec 2005

Negotiated Rulemaking And The Sunshine Law: Can It Help Local Law Enforcement And The Press Get Along?, Daxton R. Stewart

Daxton "Chip" Stewart

The Negotiated Rulemaking Act can provide guidance to press and law enforcement representatives to help them come to a negotiated agreement on handling the grey areas of open records law that have long frustrated employees of both. A negotiated protocol could be extremely helpful in easing the tensions inherent in this daily effort, and it could even serve to better inform and protect the public interest.


Middle Eastern And North African Hydropolitics: From Eddies Of Indecision To Emerging International Law, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson Dec 2005

Middle Eastern And North African Hydropolitics: From Eddies Of Indecision To Emerging International Law, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

The death of Yasser Arafat, removal of Saddam Hussein, passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483, and conflict in Sudan significantly alter the geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa. International law consists of the accretion of co-aquifer agreements as well as international treaties. Recent codification efforts have provided a framework with which co-aquifer states can address transboundary natural resources through flexible water use provisions, equitable distribution of water benefits, and strong dispute resolution mechanisms. This article applies the multifactor balancing test of the Draft Convention on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and analyzes …


Begging For Justice? Or, Adaptive Jurisprudence? Reflections On Mandatory Adr To Enforce Women's Rights In Rwanda, Phyllis E. Bernard Dec 2005

Begging For Justice? Or, Adaptive Jurisprudence? Reflections On Mandatory Adr To Enforce Women's Rights In Rwanda, Phyllis E. Bernard

Phyllis E. Bernard

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