Middle
East & Islamic Studies Collection
Laws, Legal Systems, etc.
General
- World Legal
Materials from the Middle East (The Legal Information Institute, Cornell
Law School)
- Law Library of Congress,
Global Legal Information Network
- International
Court of Justice ( Cornell Law Library is now the official mirror site for
the Americas for The International Court of Justice (Court, or ICJ). The
International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is located in the
Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1946 to replace the Permanent Court of
International Justice, it is the principal judicial body of the United Nations)
- Finding the Law:
Islamic Law (Sharia)
- Internet Law
Library, Laws of other nations
- Arab
Law Quarterly (Gopher)
- Islamic
and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net 2
- Information on
Intellectual Property, specifically Trademarks, Patents, Designs, Copyrights,
etc. [Arab countries]
- Islamic.law
- Lex Mercatoria: Islamic Law Pages
- Islamic
Law Infobase
- Islamic Family Law
- Gulf Law. Corporate Law in the Arab Middle
East.
- Arabic legal network
- Centre of Islamic and
Middle Eastern Law (School of Oriental and African Studies at the University
of London)
- islamic law and western imperialism (Jane F.
Collier)
- Introduction to Minorities Jurisprudence (by Dr.
Taha Jaber Al-Alwani (in Arabic, PDF File))
- Muslim Marriage Contract in
American Courts (by Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Minaret of Freedom Banquet May 20,
2000 )
- Women Living Under Muslim Laws
- Summary Of Middle Eastern
Criminal Code Provisions Prohibiting Bribery
- Environmental Legislation
In the Middle East -- A Preliminary SummaryBy Howard L. Stovall
- Cornell University's Legal
Information Institute
- Practicing Reference . . . Learning a Little about
the World ... / Mary Whisner
- FindLaw Internet legal resources
- UN Charter
- United Nations Treaty Collection
- International
Constitutional Law
- The International Law page
- Law-on-the-Internet
Booklist (The American Bar Association)
- The Timetable of
World Legal History
- U.S.
Constitution
- New Developments in
Internet Law ( leading U.S. and international cases)
By Country
Afghanistan
Algeria
Bahrain
Cyprus
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
- United
States Treaties with The Barbary Powers
- Libyan
Law
- I.C.J.
- Libya v. UK
- Questions of Interpretation and Application of the
1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom) (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of
America) Libya to submit a Reply in each of the cases by 29 June 2000
- Jetliner Carrying 258 to U.S. Crashes in Scottish
Town (December 21, 1988)
- Powerful Bomb Destroyed Pan Am Jet Over Scotland,
British Investigation Finds (NYT, December 29, 1988)
- 2 Libyan Suspects Handed to Court in Pan Am Bombing
(NYT, April 6, 1999)
- Indictment against the 2 Libyan suspects in Pan Am
Bombing: excerpts in Arabic
- The Guilt of Gadaffi. Gadaffi's Bomb Plot [Pan Am
103 Bombing] (The Sunday Times, London, 23 May, 1999)
- Doubts Persist About Lockerbie Evidence
(Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday , April 30, 2000 ; A01)
- Libyans Plead Not Guilty To Lockerbie Jet Bombing
(Washington Post, Thursday , May 4, 2000 ; A01)
- Defense in Lockerbie Trial Undermines a Key Witness
(NYT, 28 Sept., 2000)
- "The Syrian Document" About Lockerbie
[PDF/ARABIC] (Al-Hayat, 7 Dec., 2000, p. 6)
- "The Lockerbie Document:" Excerpts / Mobdy
Ghobn [Mubaddi Ghubn] & Ahmad Jibril Published in Al-Hayat [PDF/ARABIC]
(Al-Hayat, 8 Dec., 2000, p. 6)
- The judgement of the Lockerbie trial
(scotcourts.gov.)
- Trial transcript (Lockerbie trial)
- Report on and evaluation of the Lockerbie Trial
conducted by the special Scottish Court in the Netherlands at Kamp van Zeist
/ by Dr. Hans Köchler, University Professor, international observer of the
International Progress Organization nominated by United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the basis of Security Council resolution 1192
(1998)
- "thelockerbietrial.com"
Editors: Professor Robert Black QC and Ian Ferguson.
Morocco
Oman
Palestine
- Where Will They Go? Palestinian refugees say
international law guarantees them a right of return to their homelands. But the
law has no teeth, and the refugees fear they have no champion / BY JEFFREY
GHANNAM ABA Journal, December 2000 ["Permission to reprint and
distribute" granted to the Webmaster by the American Bar Association,
12/7/00, c/o Danial [sic] J. Kim, Ed. & Publisher]
- Paris Peace
Conference in 1919: Palestine Question : Fonds des conférences de la paix
/ Conférence de la Paix (1919 / 1920 ; Paris) -- Sources ; Bibliothèque
de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) " procès-verbaux
dactylographiés en français des Conférences de la Paix, des
réunions tenues en France et à Londres, des sessions du Conseil
supérieur de guerre, des résolutions, conversations et documents
annexes ayant été utilisés dans les discussions entre le 7
novembre 1917 et le 7 avril 1920. Ce fonds de 26 cartons est librement
consultable."
- Kata'ib al-Fida' al-'Arabi /
Qarar Ittiham al-Qadi al-Askari al-Suri, 1950 [Arab Martyrdom Brigades, Text of
Indictment by Syrian Military Prosecutor, 1950 / Arabic]
- THE PALESTINE PROBLEM IN THE FRAMEWORK OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW. Sovereignty as the Crucial Issue of a Peaceful Settlement of
the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. (Oktober 2000)
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
Turkey
Yemen
Islamic Law
- Islamic
and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net 2
- Finding the Law:
Islamic Law (Sharia)
- J. Schacht. "Law
and Justice" from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. II, pt.
VIII/chpt. 4, beginning with pg. 539.
- Islamic.law
- Lex Mercatoria: Islamic Law Pages
- Islamic
Law Infobase
- Islamic Laws [according to the
Fatawa of Ayatullah al Uzama Syed Ali al-Husaini Seestani.]
- Islamic Family Law
- The application of Islamic law in the English Courts
by His Honour Judge David Pearl (1995 NOEL COULSON MEMORIAL LECTURE)
- Islamic law / Advanced Legal Studies
Institute
- Pursuing an American Dream While Following the Koran
(NYT, July 5, 2001)
- Loans, Interest Rates and a Religious Principle
(NYT, July 5, 2001)
- The Centre of Islamic
and Middle Eastern Law (School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of
London)
- Fiqh al-Islam al-musallah = [Theology of Armed
Militant Islam]--PT. I / Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din.
(al-Hayat, 1 Nov. 2001, p. 10) [PDF--Arabic]
- Fiqh al-Unf al-musallah fi al-Islam = [Theology of
Armed Violence in Islam]--PT. II / Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din.
(al-Hayat, 2 Nov. 2001, p. 21) [PDF--Arabic]
- Yearbook of Islamic and
Middle Eastern Law
- American Finance House LARIBA
- Islamic Banking Network
- 'Understanding Islam'
Common Law, Arab Countries
Other Links
Middle East & Islamic Studies
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/
Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.
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