- In “The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran” (Constitutional Discourse), Batuhan Aydın (University of Szeged) “traces the origins of Iran’s constitutional identity crisis from the Qajar period to the present, trying to engage legal scholarship in the midst of current geopolitical developments.”
- In “Doctrinal change in Mālikī law: the case of judicial divorce on account of harm (Ḍarar)” (Comparative Legal History), Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) “explores doctrinal change in Mālikī law. Using the example of the distinctly Mālikī doctrine of a wife’s right to judicial divorce based on harm (ḍarar), [he] explores how this rule became the basic position of the school by no later than the eighth/fourteenth century, when Khalīl b Isḥāq included it in his authoritative Restatement of Mālikī law.”
- In “Polarisation of Islamic Scholars on the Legality of Cryptocurrency Usage as Currency” (Arena Hukum), Aan Aswari (Universitas Muslim Indonesia) and others observe that “cryptocurrency has become a key focus in the evolving landscape of virtual finance, sparking a divide among Islamic scholars. The debate centres on whether cryptocurrency should be considered permissible for transactions under Islamic law. [Their] study explores the polarisation among scholars, some of whom permit cryptocurrency use while others prohibit it.”