A faculty member from the University of Samarra earns a Ph.D. in Law

Assistant Lecturer (Ibrahim Khalid Abdullah), a faculty member at the College of Administration and Economics at the University of Samarra, has earned a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law at the University of Sfax in Tunisia. This comes after defending his dissertation titled “The Role of the Judge in Completing the Requirements of Contractual Provisions in Iraqi and Comparative Civil Law” in the final term of January 2025.

Khalid sought to explore the specificity of the judge’s role in intervening to determine the content of contract execution, particularly from the perspective of interpreting intent, selecting contractual terms, and the flexibility of judicial determination regarding ambiguous and explicit terms.

The researcher reached significant conclusions, including the following: the principle that the contract is the law of the contracting parties forms the basis of the contract’s strength and binding nature. What the contracting parties agree upon is binding and falls within the scope of the contract. Additionally, the inclusion of contractual requirements by the judge occurs unconditionally. The judge’s authority to intervene in the contract is not a novel concept but has existed in earlier legal systems, such as Roman law.

On this occasion, the staff of the Media and Government Communication Department at the Presidency of the University of Samarra extends its warmest congratulations to Assistant Lecturer (Ibrahim Khalid Abdullah) on earning his Ph.D., wishing him further success in his academic journey.