War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission

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 andconstruction/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..

• 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, Inigo 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 Aissatou 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