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Law and Social Inquiry’s 2018 Annual Graduate Student Paper Competition

The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student. Law & Social Inquiry publishes empirical and theoretical studies of sociolegal processes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Entries will be accepted starting January 1, 2018 … Continue reading Law and Social Inquiry’s 2018 Annual Graduate Student Paper Competition

CFP:: 3rd Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Law, Language and the Archive

Brown University Providence, RI

Brown Legal Studies 2018 CFP Language is a conduit of information, a reflection of the social and political constructions of bygone eras, as well as our present. It can be deployed in the service of beauty, expression, liberation, punishment, control, and /or shame. Moreover, language, an essential tool of the law, is ordered and organized … Continue reading CFP:: 3rd Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Law, Language and the Archive

Conference: Islam and Toleration

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is pleased to announce our annual conference on Islam and Toleration. This conference aims to explore the concept and realities of toleration in the Islamic tradition with a focus on contemporary work, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the United States. This conference is co-sponsored by Harvard … Continue reading Conference: Islam and Toleration

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series :: The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law by Ahmed El Shamsy, University of Chicago

CMES Rm 102, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law Ahmed El Shamsy Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Professor El-Shamsy is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He studies the intellectual … Continue reading The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series :: The Place of Ethics in Islamic Law by Ahmed El Shamsy, University of Chicago

ASLH Peter Gonville Stein Book Award

The American Society for Legal History announces the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, to be presented annually for the best book in non-US legal history written in English. To be eligible, a book must be published during the previous calendar year (2017). Nominations for the Stein Award (including self-nominations) should be submitted by March 15, 2018. Please … Continue reading ASLH Peter Gonville Stein Book Award

Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean

Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta

Venue and date: Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, one or more of the following themes: 1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages … Continue reading Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean

ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Hair and Identity in Islamic and Jewish Law: Uncovering an Unlikely Link

Ahmed El Shamsy, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School will delve into the seemingly frivolous issue of male grooming practices to shed light on how the early Muslim community positioned itself and its law vis-a-vis the Jews and Jewish law. Ahmed El Shamsy (PhD Harvard, 2009) is an associate professor of Islamic thought at the … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Hair and Identity in Islamic and Jewish Law: Uncovering an Unlikely Link

35th Annual Conference of the American Society for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS): Islam in the Post-Obama Era

This conference is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. Of Note: 11:15AM – 12:15PM Session 2: Shariah and the Public Sphere in the United States Chair: Peter Skerry, Boston College The Shariah Scare Industry and the Clash of Temporalities Steven Fink, University of … Continue reading 35th Annual Conference of the American Society for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS): Islam in the Post-Obama Era

ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Islamic Challenges to the Universality of International Law

The universality and coherence of modern international is increasingly challenged by technical fragmentation and identity-driven claims to particularity. This talk critically examines both the historical contribution of Islamic law to the regulation of international relations and whether relations with and between Islamic nations are in fact different. How to meet the justified demand for greater … Continue reading ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Islamic Challenges to the Universality of International Law

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