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Essays and Addresses on Arab Laws »
Authors: William M. Ballantyne
ISBN-13: 9780700710942, ISBN-10: 0700710949
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: William M. Ballantyne
Book Synopsis
Gathering together the author’s earlier writings along with essays on recent developments, this text provides essential information for anyone wishing to do business in Arab countries and needing to acquaint themselves with the legal position there. The volume presents an impartial examination of the commercial laws of the Gulf Arab states and gives details of how pitfalls and costly errors can be avoided when dealing with those states. Based on the author's extensive professional experience, the book is indispensable to business men contemplating doing business in the Arab world, and to students of Arab commercial life.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Preface | ||
| I | An Overall view: The Common Elements and a Comparative Study (Paper read to the IBA conference, Hamburg 1981; previously published with the Proceedings) | 1 |
| II | Arab Comparative Commercial Law (Inaugural Lecture, delivered at SOAS 1987) | 16 |
| III | A Short Introduction to the Shari'a (Lecture currently delivered to the LLM course at SOAS) | 33 |
| IV | Arbitration in the Gulf States: 'Delocalisation': A Short Comparative Study (Published in the Arab Law Quarterly (ALQ) 1985) | 44 |
| V | The States of the GCC: Sources of Law, the Shari'a and the Extent to which it Applies' (Lecture currently delivered to the LLM course at SOAS) | 58 |
| VI | The Shari'a (Speech delivered to the IBA conference at Cairo on 'Arab Comparative Commercial Law'; published 1987 with the Proceedings; expanded for this volume) | 79 |
| VII | Representation in Contracting: Agency (Lecture currently delivered to the LLM course at SOAS) | 104 |
| VIII | The New Commercial Code of Bahrain (Published ALQ 1987) | 119 |
| IX | The New Civil Code of the UAE: a Further Reassertion of the Shari'a (First part published ALQ 1986) | 127 |
| X | Islamic Law and Financial Transactions in Contemporary Perspective (Paper read to the SOAS conference on Islamic Law and Finance 1988; published with the Proceedings) | 177 |
| XI | Back to the Shari'a? (The Second Coulson Memorial Lecture: Published ALQ 1988) | 186 |
| XII | The Bahrain Euro-Arab Arbitration Conference 1989: A Summing-up (Published with the Proceedings) | 202 |
| XIII | A Reassertion of the Shari'a: The Jurisprudence of the Gulf States (1990) | 210 |
| XIV | The AMF Case and Arab International Corporations (Paper read to the Legal Practitioners Forum, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; published ALQ 1991) | 220 |
| XV | Secular Law and the Shari'a: Pacta Sunt Servanda and the Theory of Imprevision (Lecture currently delivered to the LLM course at SOAS) | 236 |
| XVI | Commercial Law in the Middle East: Law and Legal Change: Syndicated Loans (Paper read to the Middle East Legal Practitioners Forum, 1993; published with the proceedings) | 242 |
| XVII | Construction Contracts in the Arab Jurisdictions (Lecture delivered to the Centre of Construction Law and Management, University of London) | 256 |
| XVIII | The Shari'a: Bridges or Conflict? (The Arab Regional Forum of the International Bar Association: Foreword, IBA Newsletter, 1995) | 276 |
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