Chief-in-Editor  Prof. Badria A. Al-Awadi

A few weeks before the start of the new academic year, Kuwait International Law School Journal releases its seventh volume. The new volume includes a number of outstanding articles authored by astounding authors both from the Kuwait International Law School and from other schools in the Arab world. This volume’s articles address a variety of topics in different areas of law. Five of the articles are written in Arabic whereas the volume includes two English articles.
The first article entitled “Consensual Arbitration in Spouse Separation for Harm Caused: A Jurisprudential Legal Case Study ”, authored by Prof. Abdul-Hamid Alba’ly, explores the aspects of spouse separation for harm via judicial arbitration under articles 126 through 135 of Kuwait Family Law of 1984. The article explains how the Kuwaiti law avoids several shortcomings of other Arab states’ family laws, as it is in conformity with the provisions of Islamic Sharia’a. Nonetheless, the article urges the Kuwaiti legislature to continue reforming the law by regulating the consensual arbitration and enforcing its award.
The second study of Dr. khaled Al-Huwailah Al-Ajmi, entitled “Standard for Public Domain Privatization and Legal Restriction Imposed Thereon according to the french and Kuwaiti laws” confirms applying restriction on the transfer of ownership of public utilities to the private sector, through continued monitoring and supervision of the state after the privatization to the public interest.
In the third article, Mr. Badr Saad Aloteibi addresses “Unemployment Insurance According to the Kuwaiti Law and The Egyptian Law This article explains the underlying legal principles and provisions regulating the unemployment insurance. It concludes that both Egyptian and Kuwaiti laws contribute to establishing a coherent legal system that realizes the objectives of unemployment insurance.
Moreover, in his article “The Aggression Crime in Light of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Principles”, Dr. khaled Hassany explains the crime of transgressing under the contemporary international legal system as one of the most dangerous crimes between states. The article posits that the success of the conference of the contracting states to the International Criminal Court Charter, held in Uganda in May 11, 2010, is imperative since it managed to define the crime of transgression in international law for the first time seven years after the Charter came into force.
The Fifih article entilled “Electronic Fund Transfa: A comparative Study ” explores the increasingly important regulation of money wiring under the different Laws, especially the American Laws related to this topic.
Besides these Arabic articles, this volume includes two articles in English. The first article entitled “Validity of Evidence of Electronic Transactions and the Main Features of Criminality and Impunity Contained in the Qatari E-Commerce Law”. and the second “Applicability of CISG To Kuwaiti Businesses”, These articles provide a good opportunity for all researches to benefit from them.
Last but not least, we thank all our colleagues at Kuwait International Law School for their academic contributions to this Journal through their valuable articles, which propagate the legal culture in the Arab world. We hope this endeavor continues to ensure and promote the rule of law in the current circumstances.

We wish all a happy and peaceful academic year.