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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

  • Israel-Palestine: the calls for jihad and impending wave of foreign fighters

    On 7 October, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement that is the de facto government of the Gaza Strip, launched an aerial and ground offensive on Israel. Mohammad Deif, the leader of the Hamas military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, condenamed the attack “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”. The movement said that its...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...