Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, August 18-29, 2025

Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World Date: 18 August – 29 August 2025 Costs: €600 Level: The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers. Language: English. Non-native speakers are required to have a command of English equivalent to at least TOEFL 550. Scholarships: There are two scholarships to cover the tuition for students who

Call for Submissions: Journal of Islamic Law, October 15, 2025

The Journal of Islamic Law  welcomes scholarship in Islamic law for its main publication as well as its dynamic forum, which features scholarly responses, debates, and new developments in Islamic law scholarship or at the intersection of Islamic law and data science. We seek articles of up to 15,000 words for the Journal of Islamic

Call for Proposals: Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law’s Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today, McGill University, Canada, October 16-18, 2025

From the organizers: The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 2025 ASCL Annual Meeting, to be held at the McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, 2025. The meeting is hosted by the Wainwright Chair in

Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5-7, 2025

From the organizers: Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce that the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO’25) will take place November 5–7, 2025, at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. EAAMO’25 highlights research at the intersection of algorithms, optimization, mechanism design, social sciences, and humanistic studies

Call for Papers: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13-15, 2025

From ASLH: “Call for Papers American Society for Legal History 2025 ASLH Annual Meeting (November 13 – 15, 2025) The Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the 2025 meeting to be held November 13-15 in Detroit. Panels and papers on any facet or period of legal history from anywhere in the

Call for Papers: International Conference “Poetry and Knowledge,” University of Münster, November 20-22, 2025

From the organizers: In premodern Islamic societies, poetry was one of the central literary forms for transmitting and disseminating knowledge. Poetry can be found in almost all fields of knowledge, from Qurʾanic sciences, jurisprudence, grammar, rhetoric, and theology to algebra, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, agriculture, cooking, history, geography, logic, and many other fields of knowledge. Thousands

Position Opening: Tenure-track/tenured open-rank faculty appointments in Legal Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi, December 1, 2025 @11:59pm

Description NYU Abu Dhabi invites applications for tenure-track/tenured open-rank faculty appointments in Legal Studies. The position is in principle available from August 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. We will consider applicants from legal scholars with an active research agenda in all areas of law. We are especially interested in those whose research and