College of Law

A number of professors and teachers from the College of Law at the University of Mosul participated on Sunday, June 23, 2023, in the work of the dialogue session entitled (Amendment of the Law of Governorates Not Organized in a Region – A Step Toward Reform), which was held by the Nineveh Center for Consultation and Research and the Iraqi Academics Syndicate / Nineveh Branch, with the participation of the Bar Association and the Union of Iraqi jurists, Nineveh Branch, Al-Rushd Community Center, Nineveh Future Center for Strategic Studies, and the High Commission for Human Rights, where the session was chaired by human rights activist Muhammad Al-Jubouri, Vice President of the Nineveh Provincial Council, in the presence of a number of council members. The session discussed the draft law for governorates not organized into a region, within the directives of the Prime Minister/ The Chairman of the Supreme Commission for Coordination between the Governorates in the second regular session of the Commission, held on 3/28/2024, which included studying the draft law for the governorates not organized in the New Region, prepared in accordance with Diwani Order No. (22448 of 2022). The participants in the session presented a number of important observations and proposals related to the draft. The new law is in accordance with constitutional and legal visions to strengthen the paths of the decentralized governance system, in addition to emphasizing the necessity of granting governments and local administrations sufficient powers to enable them to perform their tasks in local legislation, policy-making and oversight, to manage their administrative, legal and service affairs and to maximize their financial revenues in a manner consistent with legal reforms, as well as submit proposals. To the Nineveh Governorate Council to work on unifying it and sending it to the Supreme Authority for Coordination between the governorates to study it and the possibility of adopting it within the draft amendment to the law of unorganized governorates in the New Region, which included more than 72 articles.