Pakistan and the FATF Grey List: An HLS Case Study, Harvard Law School

On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 12:15pm in WCC 2012, HLS International Legal Studies & the Program in Islamic Law will hold the event “Pakistan and the FATF Grey List: An HLS Case Study.” The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) spearheads global efforts to address money laundering and terrorist financing. This panel discussion will explore FATF’s work and its impact on developing countries through the lens of a forthcoming HLS Case Study on efforts of the Pakistani government in 2022 to get itself removed from FATF’s “Grey List” of countries subject to increased monitoring for deficiencies in anti-money-laundering (AML) and combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) frameworks.

Panelists: 

·       Professor Howell E. Jackson, Harvard Law School

·       Professor Faiza Ismail, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

·       Dr. Shlomit Wagman, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and former member of the FATF Steering Committee

Sponsored by HLS International Legal Studies & The HLS Program in Islamic Law