Dr. Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi is the Oil & Gas Law Professor, Fourth Law Dean, Founder of Qatar University Press, and a Judge at Qatar International Court. As a founding faculty member of the College of Law, he specialized in, and the founded the Oil and Gas Law course in QU. His academic specialty is in the arena of International Economic Law. He focuses on how the law interacts with the important things in petroleum investment, not just profit, but trust and long-term relationships between Qatar and international oil and gas companies. He is a registered lawyer in the Qatari Bar. He trained and coached the first ever team representing Qatar in the prestigious international law moot court competition, namely Jessup, in Washington DC in 2008, in which he was selected as a Judge in 2018. He was seconded from QU to the Amiri Diwan as a legal advisor for the Minister of State for Council of Ministers Affairs Office. He holds a doctorate degree in law (DPhil) from the University of Oxford, as first Qatari to matriculate at Oxford. His thesis questioned the preference of joint venture agreements in the Qatari gas industry. He holds a master’s degree in law (LLM) from Harvard University, also as first Qatari, where he wrote a comparative LLM dissertation on search and seizure. Twelve years later, was appointed at Harvard as Visiting Scholar where he developed a course on how health intersects with law, disability and ethics, and thereafter, offered it in QU under special topics. He was among the first QU law graduating cohort, in 1994, to receive the bachelor of laws degree (LLB) after which he was the first appointed TA at the then Department of Law (now College of Law). He is also an alumnus of Georgetown Leadership Seminar 2018 class (Washington DC) and Cornell University Public Sector Leadership Program, as first Arabic cohort (UN’s ESCWA).