The product of a labour of love from its editor, Judge Fathi Al Jawari, the Legislation and Judiciary Magazine is now in its second issue.

Issue 1 (January, February, March 2009) covered the following topics:

• Editorial Opinion: Words that need to be said
• Commendations
• Research and Studies:
  • Federalism and Decentralization in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution
  • Philosophy of Government in the Parliamentary System and the Iraqi Constitutional Concept
  • Government Specialties in the Iraqi Constitutions
  • The Legislative Specialties of Parliament in Financial Affairs
• Regulations and Resolutions
• Thesis (Constitutional Questions in Iraq 1921-2005)
• Judicial Promotion Research Paper (Evacuation for a compulsive necessity and the judge’s powers of assessing it)
• Legislation and Judicial News
• Legislation and Judicial Library

Issue 2 (April, May, June 2009) covered the following topics:

• Welcome to the magazine
• Introduction – Law and Society
• Research and Studies
  • Defining the crime of terrorism
  • The role of the executive in ensuring Judicial Independence
  • Views on the Unified Retirement Law
  • The crime of money laundering
  • A monetary reading of the new University Service Law
  • The legal characterization of the university teaching contract
• Regulations and Decisions.
• Comments on Judgments
• Letters of universities
  • Assault Crimes
• Research for Judicial Promotion
  • A patient’s statement of terminal illness in the Iraqi Civil Law
• Reading for you
  • Obligations of the occupying country towards the occupied country
• Legislation and Judiciary News
• Legislation and Judiciary Library

Copies of the magazine may be obtained from the editor at tqmaga@gmail.com