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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY, July 13, 2010 - The Arab Bankers
Association of North America and U.S. – Qatar Business Council are pleased to
host the upcoming Islamic Finance Forum on July 28, 2010 from 9:00 am to 12:00
pm. The Forum will take place at George Washington University Law School, 2000 H Street, N.W., in the Jacob Burns Moot Court
Room, Suite L101, during the 18th International Congress on Comparative Law. The Forum will provide a platform for top Shariah
scholars and leaders in the industry to discuss Islamic finance and its
potential to affect domestic and global financial markets and economic growth. Topics
to be addressed at the forum include: defining Islamic Law; Shariah financial regulation and practice as
applied in Qatar and the larger GCC; how
the rise of Gulf capital is affecting financial markets—and how it should be
regulated; compatibility of Shairah institutions
with U.S. law and regulation; objections by Shariah
scholars challenging the permissibility of derivatives under Islamic Law;
Islamic Venture Capital; and Dispute Resolution - law, regulation and practice.
Invited speakers include: Aamir
Rehman, Managing Director at Fajr
Capital Limited and author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing
Business in the Gulf States and Gulf Capital & Islamic Finance: The Rise of
the New Global Players; Umar
Moghul, Partner at Murtha Cullina LLP and co-chair
of the firm's Islamic Finance and Investments Group; Ibrahim
Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and author of Islamic Finance in the
Global Economy; Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo, Chief Shariah Officer at Shariah Capital;
and Frank Vogel, Senior Fellow and Head of Muslim World Law and Islamic Finance, Institution Quraysh for Law and Policy. Jean-François Seznec, Visiting
Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab
Studies, will moderate the panel discussion.
For more information about the
Arab Bankers Association of America, please visit www.arabbankers.org.
For more information about the
U.S. – Qatar Business Council, please visit www.usqbc.org.
For more information
about the 18th International Congress on Comparative Law at George Washington
University Law School, please visit www.law.gwu.edu.
Contact: Adepeju Adeyemo
+1 212-599-3030
aadeyemo@arabbankers.org
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