Claims Against Iraqi Oil and Gas: Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned Book

1. A brief prècis 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.