Legal Affairs Department

Vision:

The Legal Affairs Department seeks to operate according to an effective legal and administrative system that promotes integrity and transparency and consolidates a culture of law among university staff through respect for their rights and the duties incumbent upon them, in accordance with the laws and instructions consistent with the Iraqi law in force, and to represent the university in all internal and external lawsuits before courts, departments and institutions within its functional jurisdiction.

Mission:

The Legal Affairs Department seeks to organise and follow up the university's legal matters, including drafting and concluding contracts for teaching and administrative staff and undertakings, and providing legal proposals and consultations, in a way that contributes to establishing strong legal foundations that preserve the university's identity, and to create a working mechanism that produces a vision limiting differences of opinion and interpretation.

Objectives:

The Legal Affairs Department aims to achieve its vision and mission through the following objectives:

• Legally representing the university before official and semi-official departments and the competent courts.
• Spreading legal awareness among university staff and students by holding legal seminars and workshops.
• Contributing to resolving the problems and obstacles facing the colleges and the academic and administrative departments of the university.
• Creating legal links between the university and state institutions through participation in conferences, seminars and training courses.
• Providing the university with the proposals needed for its work, such as working regulations to be relied upon, and preparing legal studies.
• Giving legal advice on all legal, administrative and financial matters at the university in accordance with the laws and instructions in force.
• Reviewing and deciding on all preliminary and appellate investigative committees relating to the rights of the university and its staff.
• Organising all matters relating to employment contracts and guarantees for university staff (employees and teaching staff).

Tasks of the Legal Affairs Department:

1. Providing legal consultations to all university formations.

2. Drafting study undertakings and guarantees inside and outside Iraq.

3. Certifying guarantees, undertakings and contracts through the university's notary public.

4. Participating in the specialised permanent and temporary committees relating to the conduct of university work

5. Liaising with state departments to complete university business from a legal standpoint.

6. Following up university property, filing lawsuits to protect it, and acquiring land to implement university projects and achieve its objectives.

7. Defending the university before the courts and competent authorities by filing lawsuits and lodging complaints on its behalf, and vice versa.

8. Forming investigative committees on the matters referred to the department.

9. Archiving the department's correspondence and retrieving electronically any records requested by the department director or any division of the department.

10. All archived correspondence is uploaded to the electronic archiving system as a dedicated database for the department, in order to reduce the use of paper filing, and the required records are retrieved from the database at the order of the department director.

11. Submitting reports on the number of committees, the number of persons penalised and the number of university orders issued to form committees.

About the Department:

The department provides legal advice to the President of the University, the Assistant President for Administrative Affairs, the Assistant President for Scientific Affairs and all departments and colleges; reviews mail and administrative and legal matters; follows up the measures taken within the department's powers; directs the legal units within the colleges; forms investigative committees within the university; defends and represents the university before the courts and competent authorities; and pursues government legal complaints concerning the Iraqi university. The department also liaises with state administrations to complete the university's transactions legally, in addition to participating in specialised legal committees, certifying contracts concluded at the university before the notary public, and finally continuing to follow up the department's administrative and legal matters.

Department Staff

Department email: legal_dep@shu.edu.iq