Commercial law in the Middle East

The work is a compilation of twenty-one distinct papers. The collection comprises a portion of the proceedings of a joint conference arranged by the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Law and Development Programme in June of 1993. The papers are classified in the publication into seven categories: 1. Works addressing old and new models; 2. Works related to company and labor legislation matters; 3. Works on the banking industry; 4. Works dealing with maritime law; 5. Works devoted to construction contract matters; 6. Works discussing procedures and remedies; and 7. Works focused on compensation and Iraq issues. Of particular interest to Islamic finance is the third category. The three banking papers deal respectively with bank failure, with Iran's ban on interest, and with syndicated loans.