The "Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law" provides a commentary on and analysis of emerging issues in a field of global significance. The latest volume includes: essays on the Palestinian "right of return", the Lockerbie trial, the Islamic law principle of "just exchange", and special issues in Ismaili, Saudi, and UAE law; country-by-country surveys, by resident practitioners, of recent legal and related developments in 20 countries; the draft Declaration, in full text, of the World Conference Against Racism; and case summaries and book reviews.
Eugene Cotran, Circuit Judge, Visiting Professor of Law, SOAS, Chairman, CIMEL, London, UK.
Table of Contents to Volume 7 Biographical Notes Preface Part I - Articles Transfers of rights and obligations in the UAE: a comparative analysis in the light of English law, French law and the shari'a - Nicholas H.D. Foster Dispute resolution in Saudi Arabia - Yahya Al - Samaan The principle of "just exchange" in the private and public spheres of Islamic law: the consequences of the construction of property and proprietor for the Hanafi woman - Nahed Samour Principles in the development of Ismaili law - Arif A. Jamal The PLO, Resolution 194 and the "right of return": evolving Palestinian attitudes towards the refugee question from the 1948 nakba to the Camp David summit of July 2000 - Nur Masalha So much Scots law: the legal framework of the Lockerbie trial - Iain Scobbie (with an appendix of the report and evaluation of the trial by Hans Koechler) Part II - Country Surveys Egypt - Kosheri, Rashed er Riad Syria - Jacques el-Hakim Iraq - Sabah Al Mukhtar Jordan - Hamzeh Haddad Palestine - Anis Al-Qasem Lebanon - Nayla Comair-Obeid Libya - Mustafa El Alem Sudan: the law of copyright - John Wuol Makec Kuwait: human rights under the Constitution - Fadi B. Nader Saudi Arabia - Hussam Salah Hejailan, Law Firm of Salah al Hejailan, Riyadh United Arab Emirates (UAE) - Jonathan Brown, Clifford Chance, Dubai Bahrain - Husain M. Al Baharna Qatar - Najeeb Bin Muhammed Al-Nauimi Oman - Roger Clarke, Trowers & Hamlin, Oman Yemen - Nageeb Shamiri Iran - M.A. Ansari-Pour Algeria - Yamina Kebir Morocco - Michele Zirari-Devif Tunisia - Afif Gaigi Pakistan - Martin Lau Part III - Selected Documents The World Conference Against Racism and Islamophobia - Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance: Declaration adopted on 8 September 2001 Part IV - Selected Cases The Lockerbie trial in the High Court of Justiciary of Scotland sitting at Camp Zeist Qatar v. Bahrain in the International Court of Justice at the Hague Part V - Book Reviews The Rule of Law in the Middle East and Islamic World: Human Rights and the Judicial Process - Lamri Chirouf Beyond the Code: Muslim Family Law and the Shari Judiciary in the Palestinian West Bank - Dawoud El Alami Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader - Martin Lau Intellectual Property Laws of the Arab Countries - Nabil Saleh The Palestinian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. X (1998-1999) - Anis Al-Qasem Detainees Denied Justice - Anis Al-Qasem Index
