For thousands of years the place where the City of Toronto is located has been a crossroad where many peoples have met and had fruitful exchanges. According to some Indigenous knowledge keepers, the word “Toronto” comes from the Wendat term for a fishing weir constructed of sticks standing in the water. Lake and river fishing … Continue reading CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins
Dawood Ahmed, SJD Candidate, University of Chicago Dawood Ahmed will discuss his work on comparative Islamic constitutionalism.
Dawood Ahmed, Comparative Constitutions Project, University of Chicago Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.
Ahmed El Shamsy, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School The publication of al-Shāfiʿī’s (d. 204/820) multivolume magnum opus, al-Umm, in 1903-7 opened a window into early Islamic legal thought and provided the basis for all subsequent historiography of Islamic law. However, the work's publication was anything but inevitable: though it is today considered a … Continue reading ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT
Today’s scholars expect Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of texts in library collections. Despite expectations that all texts are equally discoverable, we know that countless handwritten manuscripts and documents in non-Roman fonts have neither been OCR’ed nor transcribed. Three esteemed Harvard colleagues will discuss OCR projects that promise to open up vast quantities of knowledge to … Continue reading Panel on Optical Character Recognition
Maliheh Zare, SJD Candidate, NYU Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.
Apart from the constant of student prayer before exams, the study of religion and law has changed and evolved over the years at the law school. On one hand, faculty and alumni on the courts have long engaged the topic of church and state in U.S. constitutional law, making important contributions to doctrine and practice. … Continue reading HLS Bicentennial Panel: God on Mass Ave.
Chair & Commentator: Intisar Rabb, Harvard University Michael O’Sullivan, UCLA The “Muslim Bank” in a Late Imperial Age, 1908–1925 Ari Schriber, Harvard University ([email protected]) The Transformation of the Qadi in Protectorate Morocco Adnan Zulfiqar, Rutgers Law School ([email protected]) Violent Necessity: Enacting Jihad in the Colonial Period
Junior Research Fellow 2018-2020 The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is offering two-year fellowships to outstanding scholars of Middle East politics, economics, history, religion, anthropology, or sociology for the 2018-2020 academic years. This consecutive, two-year fellowship is targeted at junior scholars with PhD in hand and not yet tenured. The fellowship’s goal is to … Continue reading Due: Junior Research Fellow 2018-2020 at Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Clark Lombardi, Professor of Law; University of Washington School of Law For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.
