Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

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Martin Lau
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About the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

Practitioners and academics dealing with the Middle East can turn to the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law for an instant source of information on the developments over an entire year in the region. The Yearbook covers Islamic and non-Islamic legal subjects, including the laws themselves, of some twenty Arab and other Islamic countries as well as international legal developments in the region.

Please click here for the online version including the abstracts of the articles of The Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law.

The publication's practical features include:
- articles on current topics,
- country surveys reflecting important new legislation and amendments to existing legislation per country,
- the text of a selection of documents and important court cases,
- a notes and news section, and
- book reviews.

The Yearbook’s editor welcomes any suggestions from scholars for articles, country surveys, book reviews and case notes. Please feel free to contact us at: yimel@soas.ac.uk.

The Yearbook should be cited as YIMEL.
Martin Lau, Ph.D, (2002), University of London, Called to the Bar by Middle Temple (1996), is a Barrister at Essex Court Chambers and a Professor of South Asian Law at SOAS, University of London.

Zubair Abbasi, DPhil Law (2013) University of Oxford, Chevening Fellow (2021) Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, is the President of the Global Institute of Law and consultant at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law.

Tachfine Baida, MA (2016) in Human Rights Law (SOAS, University of London), is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.

Amel Makhlouf, PhD (2013), Sorbonne Law School, is an Attorney at Law (Paris Bar), a Lecturer at Sorbonne Law School and a Research Associate at SOAS, University of London.
Editor-in-Chief
Martin Lau, SOAS, University of London, UK

Associate Editor
Zubair Abbasi, University of Bradford, UK Managing Editor
Tachfine Baida, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France

Managing Editor (Country Surveys)
Amel Makhlouf, SOAS, University of London, UK; Sorbonne Law School, France

Editorial Board
Mashood Baderin, SOAS, UK
Samia Bano, SOAS, UK
Gordon Blanke, Blanke Arbitration LLC, UAE
Nayla Comair-Obeid, Obeid Law Firm & Lebanese University, Lebanon
Baudouin Dupret, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
Jonathan Ercanbrack, SOAS, UK
Elisa Giunchi Ada, University of Milan, Italy
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto, Canada
Haider Ala Hamoudi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Vanja Hamzić, SOAS, UK
Mohammad Hashim Kamali, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) , Malaysia
Clark Lombardi, University of Washington, USA
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Musawah & SOAS, UK
Tilmann Röder, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Mathias Rohe, University of Erlangen, Germany
Irene Schneider, University of Göttingen, Germany
Kerstin Steiner, La Trobe Law School, Australia
Kristen Stilt, Harvard Law School, USA
Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Zulfiqar & Partners and Cairo University, Egypt
Lynn Welchman, SOAS, UK
The Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law is accepting submissions for its forthcoming volume 22 (2022).

The Yearbook’s editors welcome any suggestions from scholars for articles, country surveys, book reviews and case notes.
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