Comparative Law and the Middle East at ASCL 2020! (A PIL Guide)

The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of panels from the American Society of Comparative Law’s (ASCL) 2020 Annual Meeting schedule that feature speakers whose submissions are related to the Middle East, Islamic law and history, or Muslim-majority countries.* ASCL’s  annual meeting this year, cosponsored by UCLA School of Law International and Comparative Law Program and the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice, is held between October 15 – 16, 2020. Is there a session missing that you’d like to see here? Send us a note – pil@law.harvard.edu

*For a list of all ASCL 2020 panels on October 15, 2020, see here. For a list of all panels on October 16, 2020, see here.

 

  • COMPARATIVE IMPERIAL LAW (October 15, 2020, 6:10-7:40PM EST)

Christian Burset (chair) / Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dam

Gregory Ablavsky / Associate Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of History, Stanford University Will Smiley / Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of New Hampshire

Nurfadzilah Yahaya / Assistant Professor of History, National University of Singapore

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99038422388?pwd=R3FjVnNHd2NnVlF6T0E4UHZJeVFEUT09

Meeting ID: 990 3842 2388 Passcode: 504573

 

  • THEORIZING COMPARATIVE RIGHTS JURISPRUDENCE (October 16, 2020, 3:30-5PM EST)

Ioanna Tourkochoriti (chair) / Lecturer, NUI Galway School of Law, Freedom of Speech: an Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of American and French Legal Thought

Peter Danchin / Professor of Law and Co-Director of International and Comparative Law Program, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Antinomies of Religious Freedom: A Comparative Reading of Egyptian and European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence

Helge Dedek / Associate Professor, McGill University Faculty of Law, When Rights Became Subjective: Two Centuries of “Subjective Rights”

Talya Ucaryilmaz / Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Laesio Enormis From Byzantino-Roman Law to Ottoman Mecelle: A Comparative Study

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92178322122?pwd=RjV5RVE5RVpjSENnZnp6NE9rYzFXUT09

Meeting ID: 921 7832 2122 Passcode: 474645

 

  • THE F-WORD IN MIDDLE EAST CONSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE: FEDERALISM AND DECENTRALIZATION AS FRAMEWORKS FOR SELF-DETERMINATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (October 16, 2020, 6:10-7:40PM EST)

Omar M. Dajani (chair) / Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific

Aslı Ü. Bâli / Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Sujit Choudhry / Guest Researcher, WZB Berlin Social Science Centre & Director, Center for Constitutional Transitions

Omar Y. Shehabi / JSD Candidate, Yale Law School

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99741083524?pwd=dUVUMXNMM0txWFJxYzRDTzJIZ08yZz09

Meeting ID: 997 4108 3524 Passcode: 000218

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