Oil and Gas in the Disputed Kurdish Territories

Rex J. Zedalis is the Phyllis Hurley Frey Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa and Director of the university's International and Comparative Law Center. Professor Zedalis has spent more than three decades as a law school Professor and is the author of numerous articles published in American and European journals and has also published several books, including The Legal Dimensions of Oil and Gas in Iraq: Current Reality and Future Prospects (Cambridge, 2009).

Part 1: Contextual Background of Oil and Gas in Disputed Kurdish Territories 1. Background Regarding the Question of Iraq’s Kurdish Territory 2. Oil and Gas Deposit Location and Extant Contracts with International Oil Companies (IOCs) Part 2: Federal Constitutional Allotment of Oil and Gas Authority 3. Articles 110-112, and 114-115 of Iraq’s Constitution (2005): The Respective Powers of the Central versus the Kurdish Government When it Comes to Oil and Gas 4. Articles 25(E), 26(B), and 54(A) and (B) of the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) 5. The Matter of Disputed Territories: Articles 53 and 58 of the TAL, and Articles 140 and 143 of the Iraq Constitution (2005) Part 3: How the Kurdish Constitution, Relevant Federal and Regional Legislation, Address Oil and Gas in Disputed Territories 6. The Kurdish Constitution and Provisions of The Oil and Gas Law (No. 22) of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq 7. Article 23 of the 2008 Provincial Elections Law and Relevant Articles of the Proposed Federal Oil and Gas Law Part 4: Disputed Territories, the Terms of the KRG's Model and Negotiated PSCs, and Observations Regarding Federalism 8. Language of Both the KRG’s Model PSC and its Existing Public PSCs 9. Current Efforts of the Disputed Territories, Their Shortcomings, and Relation to Federalism 10. Epilogue