Call for Islamic papers from Harvard

The Ninth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance is scheduled to be held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 27-28 March, 2010.

The theme of the conference will be “Building Bridges across Financial Communities.” Papers are requested in the four following areas:

• FAITH AND FINANCE;
• SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;
• ISLAMIC FINANCE AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS;
• CURRENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Candidates are requested to e-mail by 1 September 2009, in a Word document, the following to blocked::mailto:ifp@law.harvard.edu" href="mailto:ifp@law.harvard.edu" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(134, 103, 42); font-weight: bold; ">ifp@law.harvard.edu: 150-word abstract of the proposed paper, Biographical sketch up to 200 words, Single-page list of presenter’s relevant publications.

We expect Forum papers to be of publishable quality, original work and written exclusively for presentation at the Ninth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance. Papers substantially similar to those already presented elsewhere shall not be accepted.

All papers, abstracts, and supporting material accepted for the Forum become the property of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School and may not be reproduced in any form or submitted elsewhere without prior written permission. No submissions will be returned.

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