The Normalization of Saudi Law

Chibli Mallat is the former EU Jean Monnet Professor of Law at the Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, and former Presidential Professor of Middle Eastern Law and Politics chair at the U. of Utah. He has also been Visiting Professor at Yale and Harvard law schools, Princeton University, and at the EHESS and the University of Lyon. In addition to his work in European law, he is a leading scholar of Islamic and Middle Eastern law, a legal practitioner, and a Former Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

• Map, Charts, Figures Preface Acknowledgments Table of Authorities Map Chapter 1. Introduction PART ONE NORMS AND SOURCES Chapter 2. The Epiphany of Saudi LawChapter 3. Blackletter Law. A Primer on Courts, Format, Evidence, Sources PART TWO NORMS AS COMMON LAW Chapter 4. Civil Law I ContractsChapter 5. Civil Law II Torts Chapter 6. Criminal Law I Procedure and Hadd Chapter 7. Criminal Law II: Ta'zir and "Everything Else" Chapter 8. Family Law: The Saudi Hanbali Exception PART THREE NORMALIZATION BY STATUTE Chapter 9. Real PropertyChapter 10. Diwan Al- Mazalem: A Court for All SeasonsChapter 11. From Diwan Al- Mazalem to Commercial Courts: A Unified Theory of RemediesChapter 12. Companies and Corporate GovernanceChapter 13. Insolvency, Banking, the Stock Market PART FOUR THE LIMITS OF NORMALIZATION Chapter 14. Constitutional Law Chapter 15. Human Rights Chapter 16. Epilogue Bibliography

“Chibli Mallat is the leading theoretician, indeed the founder, of a field of study on Middle East law. In The Normalization of Saudi Law, Professor Mallat turns his attention, with great erudition and brilliance, to the evolution of law in Saudi Arabia and finds, within a multitude of recent judicial rulings on contracts, property, the family, and the prosecution of crimes, the beginnings of a system of law. Always clear-eyed, Mallat fully appreciates that the absolutism of the Saudi monarchy and its failure to empower a national legislative assembly compromise whatever commitment to the rule of law that country possesses.” -Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University