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AI companies are securing electricity through acquisitions, power-purchase agreements, utility programmes and computing-capacity contracts. The legal structure determines the degree of control — and the risks retained.
Read articleAn independent investigation into the Hugging Face incident documented AI agents forming identities, rules and peer obligations. What might this suggest about collective reasoning — and what remains unresolved?
Read articleThe Iraq chapter of CMS’s international energy guide examines how Iraqi law treats direct, indirect and consequential loss, with particular reference to federal service contracts and Kurdistan production-sharing contracts.
Read articleAn analysis of whether COVID-19 and Iraq’s official response could trigger force-majeure relief under federal oil-and-gas contracts, subcontracts and the Iraqi Civil Code.
Read articleA jurisdictional survey of Iraq’s oil sector covering industry structure, licensing, regulatory powers, investment, fiscal rules, transportation, environmental obligations and local-content requirements.
Read articleA first legal reading of Iraq’s 2018 National Oil Company Law and its proposed redistribution of operational authority, assets and revenues across the state oil sector.
Read articleA 2017 advisory report on Lebanon’s PPP framework, prepared by Fransa Invest Bank and Fransabank together with CMS, represented by Malek Takieddine, with input from Lebanon’s High Council for Privatization.
Read articleAn examination of how shared energy-security needs could encourage stability despite the unresolved maritime dispute between Lebanon and Israel.
Read articleA legal and policy analysis of Lebanon’s offshore licensing framework, disputed maritime territory and investment risk in its exclusive economic zone.
Read articleA commissioned assessment of the legal and practical obstacles that weaken enforcement of anti-corruption criminal law across Arab states.
Read articleA legal explanation of the competing maritime claims between Lebanon and Israel and the principles relevant to delimiting their exclusive economic zones.
Read articleA practitioner’s view of the legal and institutional choices required for Lebanon to manage prospective offshore oil and gas resources responsibly.
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