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Mohd M. Billah, Ezzedine GhlamAllah and Christos Alexakis
The model of Islamic insurance policy is based on the principles of mutual cooperation, brotherhood and solidarity. This timely volume contradicts the widely-held belief that insurance policies oppose the teachings of Islam, exploring ways in which it coheres with Shari’ah law. The book explores Takaful, an insurance paradigm that is in accordance with Islamic principles and suits the needs of modern Islamic economies and communities.
Edited by Gianni Lo Schiavo
The European Banking Union and the Role of Law offers a comprehensive and unique examination of the European Banking Union’s (EBU) impact on existing legal disciplines and assesses the role of law in shaping the EBU framework.
Markus Krajewski and Rhea Tamara Hoffmann
Edited by Markus Krajewski and Rhea T. Hoffmann
Edited by Markus Krajewski and Rhea T. Hoffmann
Increasing international investment, the proliferation of international investment agreements, domestic legislation, and investor-State contracts have contributed to the development of a new field of international law that defines obligations between host states and foreign investors with investor-State dispute settlement. This involves not only vast sums, but also a panoply of rights, duties, and shifting objectives at the juncture of national and international law and policy. This engaging Research Handbook provides an authoritative account of these diverse investment law issues.
Napoleon Xanthoulis
This chapter examines the provision of emergency financial support to credit institutions in light of the European Banking Union (EBU). Emergency liquidity provision can be regarded as an integral component of both EBU pillars, namely the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM).2 The first sets up a common supervisory system for credit institutions. The second introduces a procedure for the orderly winding-up of credit institutions.