Dr. Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi is a founding faculty member of the College of Law and the founder of Oil and Gas Law course, a judge in Qatar International Court (QICDRC), the Fourth Dean of Qatar University College of Law (2022-2025) and the founder of Qatar University Press (2018-2022). 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 counselor for the Minister of State for Council of Ministers Affairs.

He holds a doctorate degree in law (DPhil) from the University of 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, where he also wrote a comparative dissertation on search and seizure. He returned to Harvard as a Visiting Scholar in 2010 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 class, in 1994, to receive the bachelor’s in law degree (LLB) after which he was the first TA who joined the then Department of Law (now College of Law). He is also an alumnus of Georgetown Leadership Seminar (Washington DC) and Cornell University Public Sector Leadership Program, as first cohort in Arabic via UN’s ESCWA.