Claims against Iraqi Oil and Gas: Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned

ISBN: 9781107610644 出版年：2010 页码：277 Rex J Zedalis Cambridge University Press

1. A brief precis on Iraq's debts 2. The legal theory of 'odious debt' 3. The development and background of Security Council Resolution 1859 4. The development and background of the Iraqi measures permitting departure from earlier oil and gas contractual commitments 5. 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 6. Old oil and gas contracts, and those of more recent vintage: Iraqi constitutional protections of contract rights and their significance on legal claims 7. Oil and gas assets affected by the prosecution of legal claims aimed at recovering on debts owed by Iraq 8. Issues associated with prosecuting a claim in the United States, with a brief glimpse at other jurisdictions: the impact of national law 9. Recognition and enforcement of determinative actions affecting Iraqi oil and gas assets 10. Lessons learned from the Iraq experience that are transferable to other instances of debt owed by resource-rich nations.