UPDATE: A Brief Overview of the Saudi Arabian Legal System by Dr. Abdullah F. Ansary: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Saudi_Arabia1.html Dr. Abdullah F. Ansary received his B.A. in Islamic legal studies in 1990 from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 1997, he received his M.A. in Islamic Shari’ah with Honors from Umm al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. In 2000, he received his LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and continued as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School for the academic year 2000/2001. In 2005, Dr. Ansary received his Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree from the University of Virginia, School of Law. In the same year he acted as a Senior Foreign Law Specialist in the Eastern Law Division of the Law Library of Congress and, until 2009, he continued to provide legal consultancy and expertise to several branches of the U.S. government, commissions, federal courts, law firms and scholarly communities and has been a member of several task forces assigned to review key issues relating to homeland security.   UPDATE: Introduction to the Norms and Institutions of the African Union by Ufuoma Lamikanra: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/African_Union1.html Ufuoma Lamikanra is a Lawyer and Principal Librarian at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos, Nigeria, who is currently on a study leave pursuing a PhD degree at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Ms. Lamikanra’s publications include: “Law Libraries and Law Librarianship in Nigeria” in the IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management (Danner, Richard A. & Jules Winterton, eds., Farnham: Ashgate, 2011); “Challenges of Sourcing For Legal Materials in a Globalized Economy,” 1 Babcock University Socio-Legal J. 66 (2009); and “Nigeria: Index to Federal Statutes in Force 2003” 232 et seq. (Lagos, Berean Club Pub. 2004). UPDATE: An Overview of Iranian Legal System by Maliheh Zare: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Iran_Legal_System_Research1.html Maliheh Zare is a J.S.D. Candidate, LL.M. 12, at New York University School of Law and Ph.D. in Private and Islamic Law at the University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN.   UPDATE: Law and Legal Systems in Madagascar: A Political Siege by by Kevashinee Pillay & Aviva Zimbris: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Madagascar1.html Aviva Zimbris is a French national. She is a political analyst who received her Master’s degree in International Conflict Studies from King’s College (London) in 2010. She has since been working in Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Brussels and Geneva. Kevashinee Pillay is an admitted attorney of the Republic of South Africa. She is a holder of an LLB (Bachelor of laws) from the University of KwaZulu Natal and an LLM in Human Rights and democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria. She is currently a doctoral candidate to the South African research chair on law of the sea and development in Africa based at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. More articles at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/.