Maliheh Zare, SJD Candidate, NYU Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.
Clark Lombardi, Professor of Law; University of Washington School of Law For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.
Seval Yildirim, Visiting Researcher, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School Professor Yildirim will discuss her work-in-progress exploring the legal construction of Muslim identity through a study of U.S. court cases dating back to the 19th century. The paper identifies three distinct typologies of how courts have defined Muslim identity and the broader political and normative implications …
Seval Yildirim, Visiting Researcher, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.
Speaker: Mariam Sheibani, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago Mariam Sheibani surveys the terminological and conceptual evolution of maxims in Shāfiʿī legal literature from the founding of the school in the ninth century to the emergence of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. Examining this evolution not only provides a history of maxims without gaps, but it …
Speaker: Mariam Sheibani, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago The emergence and functions of legal maxims in Islamic law remains an understudied field in Islamic legal history. Scholars have noted early interest in maxims in the tenth and eleventh centuries, followed by a period of dormancy prior to the eruption of maxim treatises in the fourteenth …
Sharon Tai, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi, former MIT Media Lab Fellow, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there, comparison of state courts with overall …
Rodrigo Adem, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School; College Fellow, Harvard University Department of History
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 …
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 …
