RPTE Professors' Corner: Islamic Finance

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Professors’ Corner's FREE monthly webinar featuring a panel of law professors, addressing topics of interest to practitioners of real estate and trusts/estates.
Sponsored by the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section Legal Education and Uniform Laws Group

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
12:30 p.m. Eastern/11:30 a.m. Central/9:30 a.m. Pacific

An Introduction to Islamic Law and Finance
Speakers:

Haider Ala Hamoudi, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Michael J.T. McMillen, Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York, NY

Moderator: · R. Wilson Freyermuth, John D. Lawson Professor and Curators’ Teaching Professor, University of Missouri
School of Law

Many U.S. lawyers are aware that Islamic finance prohibits the taking of interest on a loan, but are not particularly well-informed about other practices and prohibitions respecting the actual operation of Islamic finance. This webinar will provide this general background, with a particular focus on the manner in which Islamic finance can be used in the context of real estate financings and other real estate transactions. The program will begin with an introduction into what Islamic finance is, and what its primary rules are. The speakers will then discuss general means through which Islamic finance operates without breaking formal prohibitions respecting the taking of interest or engaging in excessive forms of speculation. The program will conclude by describing how Islamic finance operates in depth with particular, practical examples concerning the use, transfer, and finance of real estate.

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