International Trade with the Middle East and North Africa: Legal, Commercial and Investment Perspectives

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of trade relations with the Middle East and Arab countries from the perspectives of law, business, policy and culture in the Middle East and the Arab world and their interaction with the wider world, particularly Western countries.

The rapidly evolving economy of the Middle East and the Arab region is undergoing significant change, and establishing modern foreign ownership law, robust company, business and investment regulations, modern legal professions while keeping its basic traditional and Islamic principles. This book covers a number of important theoretical and practical aspects of commercial and trade relationships and law. It examines case studies of trade and investment relations between Arab and Middle Eastern countries and Western Countries, such as Australia, UK and US, touching on such topics as corporation law, arbitration and foreign judgments, future mobility and disruptive technology law, financial services law, charity law, trusts and cultural law.

Exploring emerging trade and investment ties between Arab and Middle Eastern countries and Western countries, it will be of interest to students, academics and practitioners with an interest in international trade and investment law.

Hossein Esmaeili is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Ordinator of the Masters of International Relations and International Law at the Flinders University College of Business, Government and Law. He is an Australian academic with distinct national and international authority in international law (particularly on offshore energy and resources law) and comparative law, particularly Middle Eastern law. He has published extensively, including in leading international law journals in Australia, Europe and North America. The global impact of his scholarly work can be seen in its use by international and Australian institutions including universities, Australian Courts and Tribunals, United Nations agencies and the United States Congress, and national and international media.

Vivienne Brand, an Associate Professor, is a legal academic with a background in practice. She researches in corporate law and governance, whistleblowing, social licence to operate and foreign bribery. She has published widely on these topics and appeared by invitation before Federal parliamentary inquiries on whistleblowing and related topics. Vivienne is currently President of the Society of Corporate Law Scholars and a Deputy Chair of the Law Council of Australia’s Corporations Committee. She leads Corporate Law teaching at Flinders and is a recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching Citation. Vivienne is also an active board director in both the for-profit and for-purpose sectors.

Susan L. Karamanian is Dean of the College of Law at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. Before joining HBKU Law, she was Provost at the American University of Sharjah, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies and Burnett Family Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University Law School, and a Partner in Locke Lord LLP in Dallas. Susan is on the board of various institutions, including the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation.