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Islamic Law Section of AALS: Annual Conference Program
January 4, 2020 @ 7:00 am - January 5, 2020 @ 3:30 pm
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4th, 2020 @ 7:00-8:30am (Room: Park Tower 8222)
Business Meeting, Islamic Law Section
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5th, 2020 @ 10:30am-12:15pm (Room: Virginia Suite C)
ISLAMIC LAW AND THE IDEA OF MASS INCARCERATION (Co-Sponsored by the Section on Criminal Justice)
Moderator: David Ball (Santa Clara Law)
Panelists
Amir Toft (University of Chicago)
“Killers and Crooks: Public and Private Jurisdiction in Islamic Jurisprudence.”
Anwar Ouassini (Delaware State University) and Mostafa Amini (Harvard Medical School)
“Between the Halal and the Haram: Islamic Law, Mass Incarceration and Culture.”
Adnan A. Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law School)
“Necessarily Abolitionist? Prison and Punishment in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse.”
SUNDAY, JANUARY 5th, 2020 @ 1:30pm-3:15pm (Room: Roosevelt 2)
ISLAMIC LAW AND THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY (Author Meets Reader)
Moderator: Adnan A. Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law School)
Speaker: Bernard K. Freamon (Seton Hall Law), Author, “Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures”
Respondent: Haider A. Hamoudi (Pitt Law)
