This thesis examines the way in which the concept of criminal law defences for individuals has been imported to international law and the consequences of doing so. The idea of defending one’s criminal act with a legally defined reason which removes criminal responsibility origin…
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In the 1990s and early 2000s lender liability for the remediation of contaminated land was considered the greatest environmental risk for lenders. The threat of liability from Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 initially drove the introduction and use of environme…
The study develops a framework for improving corporate governance mechanisms in Libya that takes into account its specific environment of weak formal enforcement and its corporate ownership structure, which is based on concentrated state ownership. The central goal of the resear…
The present thesis addresses two questions, expressed broadly as: how comprehensively is the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) embedded in Jordanian national law? and how readily do Jordanian courts apply the provisions of UNCAC? UNCAC is the first legally bin…
This thesis will look at the implications of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements entered into by the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The countries included in this study are those that are members of both the Arab League and the World Trade Organ…
This thesis examines the legal responses to child trafficking in Saudi Arabia (SA). It primarily examines whether SA has created a legal response that accounts for all trafficked children regardless of the type of exploitation they experience and whether the enforcement of the l…
The central goal of the current thesis is to understand the experience of crime committed by various types of offenders and, in so doing to examine its psycho-social and criminal background correlates. This is explored by drawing on a narrative approach. This approach includes b…
This thesis focusses on the assessing the legality of the responses of the IAEA, the UN Security Council and certain member states to the Iranian nuclear crisis from 2006 to 2015. The purpose of this thesis is to highlight the fact that the Iranian situation was primarily a lega…
This project develops a theory of a-legal space as a political strategy. A-legal space refers to the space created by initiatives which assume a quasi-legal or quasi-institutional form without any official basis, or where they exceed their recognized institutional basis. Example…
This thesis first examines the legislative framework in the UAE and its key guiding principles from which arbitration laws are derived. Secondly, based on the above examination of the existing legislative framework and literature the study identifies the various aspects of the e…
Directors’ duties of care and loyalty and their enforcement by derivative action, are important elements in the company law system. Such mechanisms are introduced to ensure that directors are subject to a satisfactory level of accountability and control while managing a company.…
Agency contracts differ from other contracts since they involve a triangular relationship among three parties: a principal, an agent and a contractor. This relationship is further divided into an internal relationship between the principal and the agent and two external relation…
This thesis examines the regulation of sustainable public procurement in the Republic of Turkey in the context of Turkey’s membership negotiations with the European Union. Sustainable public procurement is the procurement whereby contracting authorities take account of all three…
The present thesis deals with the projected Arab Court of Justice (ACJ) as a regional court, expected to be created within the League of Arab States system. Chapter one deals mainly with the basic structure of the League of Arab States itself, its membership, its organs, the set…
This study examines the concept of al-Maslaha wa al-Nass (Public Interest and Islamic legal text) with special reference to Kitab al-Buyu (chapter on business transactions) in the book of Bulügh al-Maram. The analysis moves from the connection formed between al-Maslaha and al-Na…
This thesis is a comparative study in Al-Shari'a Al-Islamiya (The Islamic Law) and contemporary international law on the subject of the legality of `lq War. It must be pointed out at the outset that the term `lq War is not the precise term to apply to the subject of this thesis,…
The aim of this dissertation is to analyse whether contracts made by electronic agents1 might be made enforceable under Islamic law. It discusses what constitutes an enforceable contract under Islamic law and whether this is applicable when a contract is made by an electronic ag…