- Monika Zalnieriute and Catherine Weiss analyze the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s (HRC) consideration of legal prohibitions on Islamic face-coverings in Yaker v. France and Hebbadj v. France in “Reconceptualizing Intersectionality in Judicial Interpretation: Moving Beyond Formalistic Accounts of Discrimination on Islamic Covering Prohibitions,” Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal, (originally published in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, 2020). The authors suggest that judicial understanding of discrimination can be enhanced by drawing on a modified UN concept of harmful traditional practices, which allows an understanding of Islamic face-covering as one among many global patriarchal practices.
- Omar Mohammedi provides an overview of Islamic inheritance laws in “Sharia-Compliant Wills: Principles, Recognition, and Enforcement,” New York Law School Law Review. The author then compares such laws with U.S. intestacy laws and subsequently discusses how the two might be synthesized and reconciled to satisfy both bodies of law.