- In an opinion piece published on the Jurist, entitled “Nigeria court overturns two blasphemy convictions after international outcry” Marie Feyche (U. Pittsburgh School of Law) reports that the High Court of Kano (Nigeria) overturned two blasphemy convictions handed down by a sharī’a court, after international outcry.
- In “DNA Evidence and the Islamic Law of Paternity in Light of Maqāṣid Al-Sharīʿa” (Law & Religion e-Journal, vol. 13(5) (2021)), Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto), using examples from Mālikī jurisprudence, argues that Islamic law privileges a child’s affiliation to the mother’s legitimate sexual partner over that child’s affiliation to the biological father.