Saudi Arabia has experienced rapid financial and regulatory transformation under Vision 2030, including significant reforms in investment law, capital markets regulation, and financial governance institutions. Despite these developments, legal education in many Saudi law schools remains predominantly doctrinal, limiting graduates’ regulatory literacy and preparedness for modern roles in compliance, regulatory advisory, and financial policy. This study examines the teaching of financial regulation and investment law in Saudi Arabia through a curriculum development perspective and proposes a framework aligned with national economic and regulatory priorities. The study adopts a qualitative curriculum analysis design. It analyzes representative undergraduate law curricula from Saudi higher education institutions, reviews key financial regulatory reforms, and examines institutional and accreditation conditions shaping curriculum design. Using comparative and thematic analysis, the study identifies key structural challenges, including fragmented coverage of financial and investment law topics, limited interdisciplinary integration with economics and finance, and weak alignment between learning outcomes and emerging regulatory labor market demands. The findings indicate that current curricula inadequately develop applied regulatory competencies, interdisciplinary understanding, and practice-oriented legal reasoning. In response, the study proposes a structured curriculum development framework that embeds financial regulation and investment law across legal education programs through outcome-based learning, modular curriculum sequencing, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experiential pedagogies such as regulatory simulations and applied case analysis. The framework also addresses implementation challenges related to faculty capacity, institutional incentives, and accreditation requirements. By offering a research-grounded and context-sensitive curriculum model, this study contributes to legal education reform in Saudi Arabia and provides practical benefits

Authors:
Naif Hadi A Alyami, Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Naif Alyami, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Law and Economics, Islamic University of Medina. Interested in foreign investment law, comparative legal systems, and governance in higher education.

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