Harvard Law School

London - LSE Public Lecture on 12th February 2014: Risk Sharing and Cooperative Finance

Department of Law public lecture
Date: Wednesday 12 February 2014
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Farmida Bi

Organised in conjunction with the Harvard Islamic Finance Project, Farmida Bi talks on Islamic finance in the Western world.

Farmida Bi is partner and European head of Islamic Finance, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.

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Shari'a-Compliant Home Financing in the United States

Islamic Finance Project
Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School

Shari'a-Compliant Home Financing in the United States

A panel discussion featuring

Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo
Shari'a Consultant, Malfa Inc. Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Panelists:
Shahab Ahmed (Moderator)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Thomas Gainor
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Guidance Residential, LLC, Reston, Virginia

David Loundy
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Devon Bank, Chicago, Illinois

Intisar A. Raab
Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Monday, October 29, 2012, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Austin Hall North, Harvard Law School

For more information, contact Islamic Finance Project at
617-496-2296 or 617-496-2297 or ifp@law.harvard.edu

S. Nazim Ali, Ph.D.
Director, Islamic Finance Project &

TENTH HARVARD UNIVERSITY FORUM ON ISLAMIC FINANCE, March 24-25, 2012

Islamic Finance and Development, March 24-25, 2012, Austin Hall

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

The Tenth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, hosted by Harvard Law School’s Islamic Finance Project, will be held at Austin Hall, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 24 and 25, 2012. The theme of the conference will be “Islamic Finance and Development.”

The Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance provides a venue for the critical and objective examination of the purposes, theory, practice, structure, and institutions of the rapidly developing field of Islamic finance. Continuing in this direction, the Tenth Forum sets the evolution of the Islamic financial industry within the context of the economic and political development of Muslim majority markets. The Forum will critically examine traditional frameworks under which Islamic Finance has developed as well as the new challenges raised by recent events, including the global financial crisis and the “Arab Spring” movements in the Middle East.

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Ninth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance: Building Bridges Across Financial Communities

The Ninth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, hosted by Harvard Law School’s Islamic Finance Project, will be held at Austin Hall, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 27th- 28th, 2010. The theme of the conference will be “Building Bridges across Financial Communities” as it relates to the field of Islamic Finance.

The two-day conference will comprise a unique experimental structure: Three plenary sessions will explore the sub-themes of Faith and Finance, Social Responsibility, and Islamic Finance after the Global Crisis.

Full text:

http://ifptest.law.harvard.edu/ifphtml/pdfs/9th_forum_brochure.pdf

NINTH HARVARD UNIVERSITY FORUM ON ISLAMIC FINANCE

Ninth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, Building Bridges Across Financial Communities,

March 27-28, 2010, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA., USA

The Ninth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, hosted by Harvard Law School’s Islamic Finance Project, will be held at Austin Hall, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 27th- 28th, 2010. The theme of the conference will be “Building Bridges across Financial Communities” as it relates to the field of Islamic Finance.

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