During the 2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium on Monday, April 1st, basketball legend and civil rights advocate Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf will share his thoughts and experiences advocating for social justice in … Continue reading Monday Event :: Civil Rights, Social Justice, and the First Amendment
This week’s issue of SSRN's Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal includes an article by SHARIAsource South Asia editor Jeff Redding on Pakistan's 2018 transgender rights law: … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Redding on Pakistan’s Transgender Rights Law
On Mar 28, Professor Mohammad Fadel of the University of Toronto gave a lecture on "Nushuz, Lawful Discipline and Spouse Abuse in the Maliki Madhab: A History and Its Relevance … Continue reading Lecture Series: Spousal Abuse and Islamic Law Reform
The latest issue of SSRN’s Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal includes: “Who or What Is the Wali al-Amr: The Unposed Question” by Nathan J. Brown … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Islamic Political Leadership
Last month, the Indonesian government decided to postpone an October 2019 deadline requiring all consumer goods sold in the country to be certified ḥalāl. According to a 2014 Indonesian … Continue reading In the News: Indonesia’s Ḥalāl Labeling Law
The latest issue of Brill’s Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World includes an article by Lena-Maria Möller on the development of family law in … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Child Law in the Gulf
Two weeks ago, the European Court of Justice—the EU’s highest court—ruled that meat derived from animals that were not stunned before being slaughtered could not be labeled “organic.” The Court … Continue reading In the News: Ḥalāl Meat
In his 2017 book, Will Hanley discusses the displacement of qāḍī courts with consular tribunals, and questions of religious authority as they competed with new ideas of nationality at … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Religious Authority and Nationality Laws in Alexandria
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to execute a Muslim inmate who had filed a legal challenge after prison officials told him he could only have a Christian … Continue reading In the News: Prison Chaplains
The latest issue of the Journal of Law and Society includes an article about the relationship between colonialism and modern-day French laws against Muslim women's dress: "Of Bodies and … Continue reading Recent Scholarship: Burkinis and Islamophobia; LGBT Rights at the OIC
