ILSS: Issam Eido
Posted on April 01, 2022On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Professor Issam Eido (Vanderbilt University) presented “Pre-Canonical Islamic Legal Canons: An Analysis of Early Hanafi Literature” as part of our Islamic Law Speaker Series. Eido […]
ILSS: Irene Schneider
Posted on March 30, 2022Join us on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:00-1:00PM US EST via Zoom, where Professor Irene Schneider (Göttingen University) will speak about her new book, Debating the Law, Creating Gender: Sharia and Lawmaking […]
Irving Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law: Professor Intisar Rabb, “Metacanons: Comparative Textualism at SCOTUS and in Islamic Law”
Posted on March 18, 2022On April 13, 2022 at 3:50- 5:00 pm (EST), PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb will present the Irving Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law at UC Berkeley Law titled “Metacanons: […]
March Newsletter
Posted on March 17, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of March! Content includes a look at the work underway in our CnC Research Group and how […]
Legal Canons—In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons
Posted on February 23, 2022PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb, gave the 43rd Annual Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture on interpreting Islamic law, which was recently published by the Villanova Law Review. Read “Legal […]
February Newsletter
Posted on February 16, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of February! Content includes our feature in Harvard Law Today’s article on “Faith in the Law,” a roundup […]
Faith in the Law
Posted on February 02, 2022Harvard Law Today recently published an article titled “Faith in the Law” that explores the four distinct programs at Harvard Law School (HLS) that pursue research at the intersection of […]
January Newsletter
Posted on January 26, 2022The Program in Islamic Law’s (PIL) monthly newsletter is out for the month of January! Content includes a Fellow Spotlight of our current Data Science Fellow, Dr. Yusuf Celik, the […]
Roundtable on Islamic Legal Genres
Posted on January 04, 2022On December 1, 2021, we hosted a Roundtable on Islamic Legal Genres as a culmination of the monthly lecture series where a group of scholars of Islamic law and history met […]
2022-2023 PIL–LC Research Fellowship
Posted on January 03, 2022In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the The Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for an inaugural 2022-2023 PIL–LC […]