Dr Valentino Cattelan

Lecturer in Law

Email:: Valentino.Cattelan@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Valentino Cattelan is an experienced researcher in Islamic law, economics and finance. His expertise also comprises comparative law, EU law, contract law and interdisciplinary studies.

Dr Valentino Cattelan joined BCU School of Law as a Lecturer in October 2020. Prior to this, he was an Associate Researcher at SCIEF (IE Business School, Madrid). In the past, he held a number of academic positions at the University of Rome Tor Vergata; the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; the Institute of Ismaili Studies (London); the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Salle); the K盲te Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study 鈥楲aw as Culture鈥� (Bonn); and other institutions.

In particular, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata he was the coordinator of the European module Integrating Islamic Finance in Europe, funded by the EU Commission under the Jean Monnet Programme (2010-2013).

Dr Cattelan has extensively published in the areas of Islamic contract law and Islamic finance. His comparative investigation deals both with the conceptual distance between Islamic economy and conventional capitalism, and with the variations that the Islamic normative discourse has experienced from classical times to the contemporary global market. On the subject, he has recently coined the notion of Typewritten Market to describe the peculiar connotations that the current law of Islamic finance holds (in the form of a process of Shariah-compliance) in comparison to the application of Islamic law in the practice of Muslim medieval trade (Arab Law Quarterly, 2021).

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Edited Volumes

Cattelan, V. (2019, ed.), Islamic Social Finance: Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Sharing Economy, Islamic Business and Finance Series, London and New York: Routledge -听
(2013, ed.), Islamic Finance in Europe: Towards a Plural Financial System, Studies in Islamic Finance, Accounting and Governance, Cheltenham, UK - Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing -听听
(2012, ed.),Integration Through Legal Education. The Role of EU Legal Studies in Shaping the EU, SENT 鈥� Thematic Network on European Studies, Bologna: Il Mulino

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Cattelan, V. (2021), 鈥淭he Typewritten Market: Shari鈥榓h-compliance and securitisation in the law of Islamic finance鈥�, Arab Law Quarterly, 35 (1-2), Special Issue Islamic Finance and Contemporary Challenges, pp. 74-91 -听
(2017), 鈥淏etween theory(-ies) and practice(-s): legal devices (hiyal) in classical Islamic law鈥�, Arab Law Quarterly, 31 (3), pp. 245-275 -听
(2017), 鈥淟鈥檈conomia islamica: alternativa apparente o reale?鈥�, Oriente Moderno, 97 (2), pp. 270-290 -听
(2017), 鈥淟egal pluralism, property rights and the paradigm of Islamic economics鈥�, JKAU: Islamic Economics, 30 (1), pp. 21-36
(2016), 鈥�Alice鈥檚 Adventures, abductive reasoning and the logic of Islamic law鈥�, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 29 (2) (Special Issue 鈥淚slamic law: its sources, interpretation, its economics, finance and the translation between it and laws written in English鈥�), pp. 359-388
(2013), 鈥淧roperty (mal) and credit relations in Islamic law: an explanation of dayn and the function of legal personality (dhimma)鈥�, Arab Law Quarterly, 27 (2), pp. 189-202 -听
(2013), 鈥淪hari鈥榓h economics as autonomous paradigm: theoretical approach and operative outcomes鈥�, Journal of Islamic Perspective on Science, Technology and Society, 1 (1), pp. 3-11
(2009), 鈥淔rom the concept of haqq to the prohibitions of riba, gharar and maysir in Islamic finance鈥�, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2(3/4), pp. 384-397

Commissioned Research Report

Cattelan, V. (2018), Theoretical Development and Shortages of Contemporary Islamic Economics Studies: Research Programmes and the Paradigm of Shared Prosperity, IKAM Report n. 6, Research Paper n. 1. Istanbul: IKAM, Research Center for Islamic Economics, pp. 1-28 -听

Chapters in Edited Books (selection)

Cattelan, V. (2020), 鈥淪acred Euro: sovereign debt(s) and EU鈥檚 bare credit in the Corona crisis鈥�, in Gephart, W. (ed.), In the Realm of Corona Normativities, Frankfurt: Klostermann, pp. 195-208
(2020), 鈥淗amlet鈥檚 ghost, Orientalism and the tragedy of Islamic economics鈥�, in K谋z谋lkaya, N. (ed.), Methodology of Islamic Economics. Problems and Solutions. London: Routledge, pp. 315-330
(2019), 鈥淐ontractual freedom, market and social justice. The invisible hand of God-man鈥檚 agency relationship (khilafah)鈥�, in Azid, T., & Sunar, L. (eds.), Social Justice and Islamic Economics: Routledge, pp. 50-69
(2019), 鈥淓xperiences in Translation: Islamic finance and the sharing economy鈥�, in Cattelan, V. (ed.), Islamic Social Finance: Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Sharing Economy, London: Routledge, pp. 71-92
(2019) (with Piratti, M.), 鈥淚slamic green finance: a new path to environment protection and sustainable development鈥�, in ibid., pp. 144-172
(2016), 鈥溾€淓qual for equal, hand to hand鈥�: comparing Islamic and Western money鈥�, in Gimigliano G. (ed.), Money, Payment Systems and the European Union: The Regulatory Challenges of Governance, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 77-101
(2013), 鈥淏abel, Islamic finance and Europe: preliminary notes on property rights pluralism鈥�, in Cattelan, V. (ed.), Islamic Finance in Europe: Towards a Plural Financial System. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 1-12
(2013), 鈥淎 glimpse through the veil of Maya: Islamic finance and its truths on property rights鈥�, ibid., 32-51
(2011), 鈥淎 new model for options in Islamic law鈥�, in Hassan, K.M., & Mahlknecht, M. (eds.), Islamic Capital Markets: Products and Strategies, London: Wiley Int., pp. 201-217
(2010), 鈥淚slamic finance and ethical investments. Some points of reconsideration鈥�, in Khan, M.F., & Porzio, M. (eds.), Islamic Banking and Finance in the European Union. A Challenge, Edward Elgar, pp. 76-87

Conference Proceedings and Working Papers

Cattelan, V. (2015), 鈥淧erforming God鈥檚 Will in market economy: Islamic contract law, fiqh and the law of Islamic finance鈥�, Proceedings of the SC-OCIS Roundtable 2014 on Harnessing Waqf into a Bankable Social Financing and Investment Asset Class, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22-23 March 2014, pp. 90-100
(2014), 鈥淚n the Name of God: managing risk in Islamic finance鈥�, Eabh Working Papers Series, no. 14-07, pp. 1-14 -听
(2014), 鈥淚slamic economics: justice, identity and pluralism in market economy theory鈥�, Proceedings of the Islamic Economics Workshop II Islamic Economy & Market, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-6 April 2014, pp. 48-59.
(2013), 鈥淛ustice as Truth: from the dyad hukm/haqq to Islamic economics and finance鈥�, Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance (ICIEF), Istanbul, Turkey, 9-11 September

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