Rechtswissenschaftliches Institut – Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies

 

Legal News Headlines

  • Sanaa, 16 May 2013

    “Yemenis reel from Saudi labour crackdown” (Aljazeera) On July 3 the new punitive labour law with stricter regulations for the foreign labourers will come into effect in Saudi Arabia... Mehr...
  • Manama, 15 May 2013

    “Twitter activists jailed in Bahrain for insulting king” (BBC News Middle East) A court in Bahrain has sentenced six twitter activists to a year in jail for insulting King Hamad and the ruling al Khalifa family... Mehr...
  • Cairo, 14 May 2013

    “Egyptian House approves higher taxes on the wealthy” (The Peninsula) Yesterday Egypt’s parliament approved a new income tax law. “The law aims to achieve social justice and increase taxes on those with higher incomes. The changes are biased towards those with limited incomes,” said Mohamed El Feki, member of the Shura Council... Mehr...
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Tagesanzeiger.ch: Verwirrliche Vielweiberei

Eveline Schneider Kayasseh, Das Recht Saudi-Arabiens und der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate - Tradition und Moderne, SZIER 2/2012, S. 243-287.

Eveline Schneider Kayasseh, Grundlagen der Herrschaft und Aspekte religiös-kultureller Differenzierungen in Bahrain, in Leander D. Loacker and Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht (ed.), Differenzierung als Legitimationsfrage, Zürich/St. Gallen 2012, pp 497-525

Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS)

c/o Chair of Private and Comparative Law
Prof. Dr. iur. Andrea Büchler
Institute of Law, University of Zurich

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