Claims against Iraqi oil and gas
Subtitle: legal considerations and lessons learned
By: Rex J. Zedalis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, c2010.; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521193504
Subjects: Debts, External -- Law and legislation -- Iraq; Petroleum law and legislation -- Iraq; Natural gas -- Law and legislation -- Iraq; Oil and gas leases -- Iraq; Revenue sharing -- Law and legislation -- Iraq; Petroleum industry and trade -- Iraq
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief précis on Iraq's debts; title: The legal theory of "odious debt"; title: The development and background of Security Council Resolution 1859; title: The development and background of the Iraqi measures permitting departure from earlier oil and gas contractual commitments; title: The concepts of "finality," "related to," and assorted matters: of Article 54 of the KRG's oil and gas law (no. 22), and Article 141 of the Iraqi Constitution; title: Old oil and gas contracts, and those of more recent vintage : Iraqi constitutional protections of contract rights and their significance on legal claims; title: Oil and gas assets affected by the prosecution of legal claims aimed at recovering on debts owed by Iraq; title: Issues associated with prosecuting a claim in the United States, with a brief glimpse at other   jurisdictions : the impact of national law; title: Recognition and enforcement of determinative actions affecting Iraqi oil and gas assets; title: Lessons learned from the Iraq experience that are transferable to other instances of debt owed by resource-rich nations.