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A Practitioner's Introduction To Saudi Arabian Law, Gali Hagel

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

There is no Saudi legal code. Although the literature on the Islamic faith is extensive, the only Saudi laws available in the English language are the corporate, tax, and labor regulations. This Note brings together the applicable principles and laws to provide a broad overview of the Saudi legal system: it discusses the way in which Islamic law has evolved in Saudi Arabia, analyzes the major Saudi corporate regulations, and, as an introductory research tool, directs the practitioner to more detailed resources. This Note also gives practical advice to attorneys representing clients doing business in Saudi Arabia, adding needed dimension …

The Recent Shift In United States Policies Toward The International Monetary Fund And The World Bank, Polly R. Allen

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Today's world economy is characterized by recession, reduced growth in international trade, high oil prices, and high interest rates. Although industrial countries face these problems and the problems often originate in the industrial countries, the developing countries that are not major oil exporters are encountering particularly serious difficulties. The external pressures on these developing countries, combined with their problems of structure and policy, are causing severely reduced rates of growth, higher rates of inflation, increasing problems with balances of payments, and growing foreign debt. Because many of these difficulties arise outside these countries' economies, and because the solutions often require …

Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Emerging Financial Centers: Legal and Institutional Framework

Edited by Robert C. Effros

Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1982. Pp. xvi, 1150. $35.00.

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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

By George C. Greanias and Duane Windsor

Lexington, Massachusetts: Heath and Co.,1982. Pp. ix, 187. $23.95.

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Foreign Commerce and the Antitrust Laws Vols. I-II.

By Wilbur L. Fugate

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Vol. I, pp. xxiv, 427; vol. II, pp. xxiv, 460. $100.00.

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The Fund Agreement in the Courts: Volume II.

By Joseph Gold

Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1982. Pp.xii, 499. $17.50.

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International Capital …