ConLawProf Blog’s own Steven Schwinn is in Amman, Jordan this week with his colleague Mark Wojcik, both from John Marshall School of Law. As Legal Writing Prof Blog notes, they’ll be leading a one-week ABA Workshop on Teaching Essential
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Jordan–Law on Societies Amended
Amendments to Jordan’s Law on Societies (No. 51 of 2008) came into effect after Jordan’s King Abdullah II signed the Law Amending the Law on Societies (No. 22 of 2009) and the amendments were published in Official Gazette No. 4983.…
Human Rights Groups Call On Jordan to Scrap Proposed Amendments to Law Regulating NGOs
Human Rights Watch and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network wrote a letterto Jordan's Prime Minister, Nader al-Dahabi, calling upon Jordan to scrap its proposed amendments to a law regulating NGOs and instead propose a new law that would guarantee freedom…
Fiat Settles FCPA Charges Involving Iraq Oil for Food Program
The SEC today filed Foreign Corrupt Practices Act books and records and internal controls charges against Fiat S.p.A. and CNH Global N.V. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Fiat S.p.A., an Italian company, provides automobiles,…
Jordanian Poet Charged With Blasphemy
Jordan has arrested a poet for blasphemy based on the accusations of a leading religious figure, the Grand Mufti Nuh Qdah, who says that Islam Samham’s recent poems are “a type of atheism and blasphemy,” because they link material from…
Jordan to Introduce Captive Insurance Guidelines by Year End
According to media sources, Rana Tahboub, Assistant Director General of the Insurance Commission of Jordan (“IC”), recently stated that the IC is planning on introducing legislation to the Council of Ministers to create a captive insurance market in Jordan, the…
Canada-Jordan Free Trade Agreement
Empowering Women in Jordan
Earlier this month, a coalition of organizations began a gender equality campaign (including workplace equality) in Jordan. According to an article in the Jordan Times, Sponsored by several organisations including the King HusseinFoundation, the Women’s Studies Centre at the…
Chevron Settles FCPA Charges Involving Iraq Oil for Food Program
Chevron Corp. becomes the fifth company that the SEC has gone after for violations of the FCPA in connection with illegal kickback payments that were made to Iraq in 2001 and 2002 in connection with the company’s purchases of…
Documentary on Iraqi Refugees
Here is a message that I received that may be of interest:My name is Kalyanee Mam, and my partner David Mendez and I are currently producing a documentary that will follow the hopes and struggles of Iraqi refugees in Jordan…