Harvard Law School

As a follow-up to the workshop on tawarruq held on February 1, 2007 on the London School of Economics campus, the Islamic Finance Project (IFP), a project under the auspices of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, and the London School of Economics (LSE) decided to work together again to gather a group of influential Islamic legal scholars,

The Islamic Finance Project and Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School organized a panel discussion in Pound Hall on September 26, 2011 entitled “Islamic Finance: Bankruptcy, Financial Distress and Debt Restructuring”. The goal of the seminar was to create an understanding of recently reported cases of bankruptcy and debt restructuring of Islamic finance products.