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Iraq’s final constitution (English)

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This is an unofficial translation of Iraq’s constitution. This translation was originally prepared in 2005, and Zaid has been making various improvements to it since. Amongst other things, he has included titles for each individual article and has included an interactive table of contents for ease of reference. Please note however that no translation is perfect and that the only official version of the constitution that researchers should use for their purposes is the Arabic original.

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Meet the Author

Zaid Al-Ali has been practicing law since 1999, specializing in international commercial arbitration and comparative constitutional law.

Author Zaid Al-Ali and his wife Rouba Beydoun during a dust storm in Iraq in 2010.

He has law degrees from Harvard Law School, the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), and King’s College London. From 2005 to 2010, he was a legal adviser to the United Nations focusing on constitutional, parliamentary, and judicial reform in Iraq. Since the beginning of 2011, he has been working on constitutional reform throughout the Arab region, in particular in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. He has published widely on Iraq and on constitutional law.

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