The Wisconsin International Law Journal (WILJ) hosted its annual Symposium on Friday, March 2, 2007, in Godfrey and Kahn Hall (Room 2260) of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

The goal of the event, “Islamic Law in a Globalized World: Implications for Contemporary Finance Law,” was to call attention to the significant role Islamic law, particularly Islamic finance law, has come to play in the United States.

Scheduled presenters included Mahmoud Amin El-Gamal, the former Islamic Finance Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Treasury and Professor of Economics and Statistics at Rice University; Hikmahanto Juwana, Dean of the University of Indonesia; Asifa Quraishi, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School; and Walid Hegazy, Foreign Legal Consultant at Fulbright and Jaworski LLP, among others.

The well-attended event was open to the legal community and to all University of Wisconsin students and faculty.  To learn more about the event and speakers, see http://law.wisc.edu/ils/wilj2007symposiumi.htm .

The event was co-sponsored by the Global Legal Studies Center, the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions (LISAR), the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), the East Asian Legal Studies Center, the Middle East Studies Program, the Global Studies Program, Westlaw, Middle Eastern Law Students Association, Muslim Students Association, Associated Students of Madison (ASM), and the Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies.

Submitted by on March 14, 2007

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