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

We would like to welcome all the faculty members and students in the school to the new academic year, wishing them success and prosperity in their academic endeavors to serve their nation and respect the right to privacy of every human.
This issue of the Journal is a special edition that includes the articles presented in the school’s second annual conference entitled “Recent Challenges to the Right to Privacy”, which was held during the 15th-16th of February.
This special issue of KILAW’s Journal includes 12 articles related to the different aspects of the right to privacy, starting with the particularity of the Islamic identity of the individuals and the nation, to the right to personal privacy under the Irish, British and EU laws. Additionally, the article entitled “Standards for Processing Personal Data: A Comparative Study between French and Kuwaiti Laws” draws attention to dangers of trading in personal data against profit.
In his paper “The Role of Press and Publication Laws and Media Codes of Conduct in Protecting the Right to Privacy”, Dr Emad A. Gaber from Helwan University in Egypt explains the equivocal scope of the right to privacy.
The first volume of this issue contains several important articles that may not easily be summarized in such a brief introduction. They should be fully read to have a comprehensive understanding of the right to privacy. One of the articles entitled “Recent Developments in the Right to Privacy: Right to Digital Privacy” authored by Dr Mahmoud Abdul-Rahman the Head of Private Law Department at KILAW, emphasizes the significance of the right to privacy in both positive law and Islamic Sharia’a, which devoted a special value to this right. This also applies to international organizations that attempt to secure an effective protection to such right through concluding international agreements under the umbrella of the United Nations.
Last but not least, we extend our gratitude and appreciation to the editors of this Journal for devoting this issue to publishing all the articles related to the right to privacy. This enables the reader to cope with the most recent developments of and challenges to the right to privacy as a basic human right steered by modern technology and media.