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

Part I: Emerging Geo Political Realities and Global Markets

1. Emerging Global Markets and Trade and Investment with the Middle East and the Arab World

Hossein Esmaeili and Vivienne Brand

2. Arab-Australian Trade and Investment in an Era of Challenges to the Liberal International Order

Susan L. Karamanian

Part II: International Trade and Financial Services and Investment

3. Entrenching the Hull Formula in Arab Domestic Laws: The Case of Egypt and the GCC Countries

Heba Sewilam and Yassin El Shazly

4. Creating New Markets through Financial and Legal Services: Australia and the Middle East

Andrew Godwin

5. The UAE Legal and Regulatory Landscape: A Perspective from Practice

Gary Watts and Marcus Wallman

Part III: Building Connections: Cultural and Education Factors

6. The Doctrine of Wasta (Network Relationship) in International Business (or Management) in the Arab World

Reem Alothmany

7. Educational Development of Arbitration in the Arab Region and Australia: The Willem C Vis International Arbitration Moot

Christopher Kee

Part IV: Corporate Insolvency

8. Sharing Australia’s Cross-border Insolvency Experiences Using the Model Law with the Arab World

Christopher Symes

9. The Interaction between Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy Legal Regimes in the GCC

Bashar Malkawi

Part V: Charities and Trusts: Cultural and Cross-Border Factors

10. Charities Law Systems in Australian, Islamic Law and the Arab World: Possible Future Cross Border Investment

Hossein Esmaeili

11. Nurturing Benevolence: Exploring Endowments (Waqf) in Islamic Jurisprudence and in Egyptian Law

Shams Al Din Al Hajjaji

Part VI: Technology and Defence

12. Bridging the Gap: Technology Licensing between Australia and the Middle East

Robert Chalmers

13. International Law Relating to Arms Trade: Australian Defence and Strategic Goods Export Regime and Arms Trade with the Middle East

Hossein Esmaeili and Lewis Lock-Weir

14. FinTech in MENA: Social, Political and Legal Dimensions

Andrew Dahdal

Part VII: Emerging issues: Sustainability Governance, Aged Care and Environmental Concerns

15. Sustainability in the Middle East: Directors’ Duties

Vivienne Brand and Andrew Dahdal

16. Olan Overview on Digital Health Transformation in the GCC and Associated Ethical and Regulatory Challenges

Angie Abdel Shafei and Ahmed Taher

17. Legal Duties and Disclosure Obligations for Directors of Fossil Fuel Corporations: A Comparative Analysis of Australia and Saudi Arabia

Judi Storer

Biography

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.