This text explains and analyzes the laws affecting agency and distribution in 13 Arab countries. For each country the relevant statutes and case laws are analyzed and the administrative practice described. It shows the absence of uniformity of legal principles, the lack of effective judicial remedies upon termination of an agency, the transformation of a distributorship into an agency, notwithstanding the declared intentions of the parties, the importance of ministries which regulate the courts and boards to a residuary function and, finally, the influence of the Shari'a on the laws of agency and distributorship. A useful feature of this book are the original translations from Arabic into English of all the key laws and regulations relating to the agency and distributorship.
