“The Normalization of Saudi Law reveals an unprecedented field of work, that of Saudi law, based on the study of thousands of judgments. It facilitates an understanding of the current developments towards a “normalization” of Saudi law and shows, through the courts' application of justice, how Saudi society actually functions. It is an essential book, not only for the study of law, but for understanding present-day Saudi Arabia.”
-Professor Henry Laurens, College de France
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.