Global law leaders gather in Doha
“The goal of the Qatar Law Forum is to be the foremost meeting for positive international engagement among leaders in the law. The pre-eminence and diversity of the delegates and speakers attending in May is a clear sign that the forum will live up to our ambition.”
LEGAL luminaries are heading to Doha for the forthcoming Qatar Law Forum 2012 (May 4 to 6) to debate the global commitment to the rule of law. This year’s forum focuses on change in the Middle East, and the world’s current financial challenges.
Qatar Law Forum 2012 provides an opportunity to discuss the challenge of achieving global understanding and commitment to the Rule of Law. A spokesman told The Oath: “The forum comes at a particularly critical time of constitutional change for countries of the ‘Arab Awakening’ as well as the persistent shadow of continued financial uncertainty globally.”
Building on the first Qatar Law Forum in 2009, the 2012 event will again see the participation of leading figures from the legal, business, policy making and academic fields.
To date, confirmed attendees are drawn from more 50 countries in the developing and developed world, including more than a dozen serving Chief Justices, together with Ministers of Justice, national and international Bar Association Presidents, representatives of the top academic institutions from every continent, and senior general counsel.
The exceptional calibre of participants, coupled with the importance of the debate in the present global economic and political
climate, makes the Qatar Law Forum 2012 an unparalleled event in the international legal calendar.
The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf, Co-convener and President of the Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (QICDRC), said: “The goal of the Qatar Law Forum is to be the foremost meeting for
positive international engagement among leaders in the law. The pre-eminence and diversity of the delegates and speakers attending in May is a clear sign that the Forum will live up to our ambition”.
The Qatar Law Forum 2012 is supported by the Government of Qatar and held under the patronage of His Highness the Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. It will examine the rule of law and economic, political and social development; the role of international courts and the rule of law; and freedom of communications in times of change. The hosting of the forum in Qatar will allow these issues to be addressed at both the global level and in an Islamic context.
TOPICS AT THE FORUM
Topics will include:
» Achieving global understanding of the
Rule of Law
» Change in the Arab world and the Rule
of Law
» The role of ethics and law in finance
» Corruption and development
» International courts
» Free communication in times of change
» International dispute resolution
» International sport and the law
» Judicial training and legal professionalism
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