Introduction to Middle Eastern Law

This book maps out Middle Eastern law from its earliest records to the compendia of the Islamic classical age through to the latest decisions of Middle Eastern high courts. It focuses on the way legislators and courts conceive of law and apply it, and introduces its main sources and legal concepts in a manner accessible to the non-specialist legal scholar or practitioner.

Auteur
Chibli Mallat is Professor of Middle Eatsern Law and Politics at the University of Utah, the EU Jean Monnet Professor of Law at the Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. In addition to his work in European law, he is a leading scholar of Islamic and Middle Eastern law, a legal practitioner, and a Former Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Contenu

• Preface

• 1: From Islamic to Middle Eastern Law:a Restatement of the Field

• I History

• 2: The Formation of Middle Eastern law

• II Public Law

• 3: Introduction to the Contemporary Middle East

• 4: Constitutional Law: the Specificity of Middle Eastern Constitutionalism

• 5: Constitutional Review: the Spread of Constitutional Councils and Courts

• 6: Judicial Review

• III Private Law

• 7: Introduction to the Age of Codification

• 8: Civil law: on Style and Substance

• 9: Commercial Law: Modernity and its Hiccups

• 10: Family Law: the Search for Gender Equality

• 11: Epilogue: Justice and Lawyering in the Middle East

• Bibliography

• Tables of Cases, legislation, Verses and Hadiths