From the organizers: “Welcome to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL)! This event represents the Society’s yearly premiere gathering, and its objective is to give Comparative Law scholars the opportunity to meet and present their cuttingedge work, share news in the field, and network with each other. No need …
Venue: Langdell Hall; 232/233 Langdell “Bring your laptops and your appetite and join Debbie Ginsberg of HLSL’s Research Services team for a demonstration of the AI tools currently available to law students. She’ll fill you in on the tools used in law practice (not yet accessible to law schools) and how they compare to the …
Venue: Austin Hall; 101 Classroom – East “Jonathan Berry (Managing Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC) will discuss the relationship between faith, our work as lawyers, and the character and substance of the law.” For more details, please see here.
Where: Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 When: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 / 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) “Between the 1850s and World War I, the Ottoman Empire welcomed about a million Muslim refugees from Russia. In his new book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky examines how Circassian, Chechen, Dagestani, and …
From the organizers: Challenging claims that Middle Eastern states have become secular in modern times, this Crown Seminar features Malika Zeghal, in conversation with Eva Bellin. Zeghal will offer an innovative analysis of the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion based on her new book, The Making of the Modern …
From the organizers: Dean Haider Ala Hamoudi, along with a panel of attorneys, will discuss the challenge of Islamophobia and how it manifests within the legal profession. This event, “Islamophobia & the Law”, will be held 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at Bricker Graydon Law Offices (312 Walnut St., Ste. 1800). The panel discussion will …
Location: S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Sponsors: Southeast Asia Initiative, Harvard Asia Center Mahmood Kooria, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK “Millions of Muslims …
Conflicting Legacies of the 1858 Ottoman Land Law: A View from Palestine Munir Fakher Eldin (Birzeit University / EUME Fellow 2009/10 and 2024/25), Chair: Nazan Maksudyan (Centre Marc Bloch / …
On 7 November, RIMO, the Dutch Association for the Study of Islamic Law and Law of the Middle East will host an online symposium on Recent Developments in Family Law …
Date: Friday, November 8, 2024, 2:30pm to 4:30pm Location: Lamont B30 Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Libraries present: Research Methods in Islamic Studies Workshop: Library Resources for Scholars of Islamic Studies Program: 2:30-2:45 Emily Coolidge-Toker (Lamont) 2:45-3:00 Kristine Greive (Houghton) 3:00-3:15 Cem Tecimer (SHARIAsource) 3:15-3:30 COFFEE BREAK 3:30-3:45 Matthew Smith (Persian collection) 3:45:4:30 Joanne Bloom & Amanda Steinberg (Fine Arts …
