The Money and Law Research Laboratory focuses on studying money from a legal holistic perspective, in addition to studying monetary law. While this theme is topical due to the current events in Lebanon, the laboratory is not restricted to a local and circumstantial approach. Rather, it endeavors on a broader scope to study money as such from a legal point of view and all topics related to it, such as the role of cryptocurrencies in payments, private money, indexation clauses, or the status of foreign currencies. This leaves plenty of room for a fruitful interdisciplinary cooperation with other USEK schools and departments as well as with local or international institutions.

The activities of the laboratory also include the organization of academic events, publications, and public outreach in an effort to bring about scientific vulgarization.

Suggested research topics

• Definition of money between law and economics.
• The status and role of foreign currencies in national law.
• Payment of monetary debts.
• Digital cryptocurrencies: nature, function, and future outlook.
• Money and ethics.
• Money and politics.

Head of the Laboratory

Dr. Bechara Karam