He is currently a team member in a QNRF NPRP-C project entitled: Proactive Resilience Plan (PReP): An Integrated Framework Applied to Critical Economic Sectors. He has peer reviewed articles and a monograph published in leading law journals such as Georgetown Journal of International Law, Oxford’s Chinese Journal of International Law, International Energy Law and Taxation Review, and International Arbitration Law Review. His book “Joint Venture Agreements in the Gas Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis” is published by Springer Nature in 2019 and indexed in Scopus within ASTI series, and was reviewed in Oxford’s World Energy Law & Business.

His key research interests, supervision and press inquiries fall within the topics of joint venture agreements, petroleum law and business, education reform, decision-making process, socio-legal studies, and multinational enterprises and foreign direct investment. He was QU’s LPI in QNRF’s NPRP which employed TradeLab benefits to Qatar as first university in the MENA. 

He was consulted by international law firms, educational institutions and governments on subjects related to joint ventures, education reform, natural resources legislation, and investment law. 

Selected publication (peer-reviewed)

Books

Joint Venture Agreements in the Qatari Gas Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2019) Springer Nature

Book chapters

Introduction, The History of Law in Qatar (2024 QU Press) 

Editorial and Foreword (with Mohamed Bousserghine), Introduction to Law & Social Science, Hassan Hijij (2024 QU Press) 

Excise Tax and Taxation of the Oil & Gas Sector in Qatar (2019) Open Access

Articles

– Foreword, V16 Issue 2, (April 2023) Journal of World Energy Law & Business

– QU Press Dialogue with 2021 Literature Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdulrazak Gurnah (Spring 2023), Research in African Literatures

– Qatar Arbitration Law: Some Central Issues (republication) Transnational Dispute Management Issue (2015)

– The Renegotiating Clause in Petroleum International Joint Venture Agreements (Summer 2012) Oxford Student Legal Research Paper Series

– The Hardship and Force Majeure Clauses in International Petroleum Joint Venture Agreements, (Summer 2011) Oxford Student Legal Research Paper Series

– Joint Venture Contracts among Current International Negotiated Petroleum Contracts (Summer 2010) Georgetown Journal of International Law: The Summit

– Stabilization Clauses in International Joint Venture Agreements, (May 2010) International Energy Law Review

– Qatar Arbitration Law: Some Central Issues (May 2008) International Arbitration Law Review (cited by the American law firm Williams & Connolly LLP team’s submission for ITTIC v. DynCorp, US District Court, Washington DC) 

– (With M. Al-Asmakh) Cultural Differences and Their Impact: Some Brief Comments (October 2006) Oxford Journal Chinese JIL  

– Decisions of Qatari Courts Involving Questions of Private International Law (April 2006) Transnational DisputeManagement

– The Qatari Exercise of Gas Joint Venture Contracts (December 2004) International Energy Law and Taxation Review

Media 

When energy brings synergy: Brazil, Qatar and Lebanon (With others, Summer 2023)