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Ahmad Ghouri

Dr Ghouri is an expert in international investment and commercial arbitration and Shariah compliant dispute resolution. As a practising lawyer in Pakistan, he has extensive experience in commercial law and dispute resolution and regularly advises private and public organisations and government ministries. He teaches commercial law at the University of Sussex covering both domestic and international contexts and a wide range of subjects including international investment law, international commercial arbitration, corporate law and governance, and Islamic commercial law.

 

Items by Ahmad Ghouri

  • All wars are bad for children 

    All wars are bad for children 

    Russia took the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on 1 April. The role is held by each of the member states in turn for one month, in English alphabetical order. This means that the Security Council is being led by a country whose president is subject to an…

  • The ICC’s selective approach to war crimes undermines its credibility

    The ICC’s selective approach to war crimes undermines its credibility

    Given the slow and selective investigations of alleged war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court’s speedy warrant to put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial for alleged crimes in Ukraine begs questions about it becoming a partisan institution. Based in The Hague, the ICC is an independent…

  • When will the UN ask the USA and UK to pay reparations for their illegal invasion of Iraq?

    When will the UN ask the USA and UK to pay reparations for their illegal invasion of Iraq?

    Iraq paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations that it owed for Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was compelled to make this payment when the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 687 in April 1991 finding that “Iraq […] is liable under international law for any direct…

  • Endless disregard of the non-intervention principle by the United States

    Endless disregard of the non-intervention principle by the United States

    Non-intervention principle in international law Article 2.7 of the United Nations (UN) Charter provides that “Nothing contained in the present  Charter  shall  authorize  the  United  Nations  to  intervene  in  matters  which  are essentially  within  the  domestic  jurisdiction  of  any  state …” In 1965, the UN General Assembly adopted Declaration on…