• Contributors


• Preface, by Mojtaba Kazazi


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction, Prof. David Caron


• Part I:


• The UNCC Through Different Lenses: Political Context, Operations,


• Comparative Analysis, and Lessons Learned


• Chapter 1 - Policy Issues Surrounding the Creation and Operations of the UNCC,


• Ronald J. Bettauer


• Chapter 2 - Dispute System Design: The United Nations Compensation Commission, Francis E. McGovern


• Chapter 3 - Applicable Law: Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello and the Legacy of the UNCC,


• Veijo Heiskanen and Nicolas Leroux


• Chapter 4 - Principles of Valuation Taken from the UNCC Perspective,


• Arif H. Ali and Marguerite C. Walter


• Chapter 5 - The Palestinian "Late Claims" Program: Remedying Mistakes in Mass Claims Processing Without Compounding the Error, Jason Scott Palmer


• Chapter 6 - The Role of Iraq in the UNCC Process with Special Emphasis on the Environmental Claims, Michael E. Schneider


• Part II


• The UNCC Jurisprudence and Work on Urgent Claims,


• Claims of Individuals, Corporations, and Governments


• Chapter 7 - The Jurisprudential Legacy of the UNCC: Legal Issues Common to All Claims Categories, Tim Feighery


• Chapter 8 - Making Good for Forced Exodus: the UNCC Compensation of Departure from Iraq or Kuwait - Claims of Individuals: A Claims, Iñigo Salvador-Crespo


• Chapter 9 - Corporate/Business Claims: Claims of Kuwaiti Corporations, Michael J. Mucchetti


• Chapter 10 - Directness of Claims by Foreign Companies in Remote Locations: Claims of Non-Kuwaiti Corporations, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu and Aïssatou Diop


• Chapter 11 - Construction and Engineering Claims,


• John Tackaberry and Trevor Rajah


• Chapter 12 - Government and International Organization Claims: Precedential Claims by Governments for Damage to Diplomatic Property and Related Losses, Robert C. O'Brien


• Chapter 13 - The KIA Claim: Costs of Financing Kuwait's Reconstruction,


• Caroline Nicholas


• Index

Christopher S. Gibson is the Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. He served as a legal advisor at the UNCC and was in charge of the Category "C" claims (claims of individuals for under US$100,000). He also served as senior legal officer at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague, The Netherlands. He was a legal officer at the World Intellectual Property Organization's ("WIPO") Arbitration and Mediation Center, and Head of WIPO's Electronic Commerce Law Section developing dispute resolution procedures for Internet-based domain name disputes.
Trevor Michael Rajah was the Executive Head of the UNCC (2013-2014). He previously worked at the UNCC as a legal officer on the Construction and Engineering claims (1998-2002). Presently, Mr. Rajah is employed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria. Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Rajah worked as a divisional legal manager in the financial services industry. He also practiced law in Canada and Zimbabwe. Mr. Rajah holds a Masters in Law (LLM) from the University of London, where he was a Foreign and Commonwealth Scholar. He is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales; as a barrister and solicitor in Ontario, Canada; and as an attorney in Zimbabwe. He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK.
Timothy J. Feighery is a partner in the law firm of Arent Fox LLP in Washington, DC. He was previously a Chief of Section of the UNCC Legal Services Branch, responsible for non-Kuwaiti corporate claims and
construction/engineering claims. He also served as Chairman of the US Foreign Claims Settlement Commission from 2011-2013, and as a Deputy Special Master of the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund.
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Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Designing Compensation After Conflict is the first collective work on the UNCC claims program by experts who have contributed to its progress, and who have assisted in paving the way for more informed research on the Commission and its jurisprudence.