January 2024

Panel on Islamic Law and Constitutionalism: AALS 2024 Meeting, January 4, 2024 @ 8:00 – 9:40 a.m.

January 4, 2024 @ 08:00 - 09:40

Islamic Law and Constitutionalism (Thursday, January 4th, 2024 – 8am to 9:40am) Presenters: Marzieh Tofighi Darian (Princeton University), “Abusive Islamic Judicial Review” Safa Ben Saad (Université de Sherbrooke), “Islamic constitutionalism: a stillborn model” Bahman Khodadadi (Yale Law School), “Judge vs. Legislator in Islamic Constitutionalism: A Case Study of Iran” Said Kaymakci (Catholic University): “Searching for a …

Author-Meets-Reader: Sherman Jackson and “The Islamic Secular,” AALS 2024 Meeting, January 6, 2024 @ 10:00 – 11:40 a.m.

January 6, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:40

Author-Meets-Reader – Sherman Jackson and “The Islamic Secular” (Saturday, January 6th, 2024 – 10am to 11:40am) Speaker/Author: Sherman Jackson (Professor and King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture, University of Southern California), author of The Islamic Secular. Respondent: Haider Ala Hamoudi (Dean and Professor, University of Cincinnati Law). Moderator: Adnan Zulfiqar (Associate Professor, Rutgers Law School)

Call for Proposals: Law & Society Association Programming Grants, January 8, 2024

January 8, 2024

Proposals are due January 8, 2024 12 PM ET (Noon) We are pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for Programming Grants in the field of law and society. This program, authorized this year by the LSA Board of Trustees, anticipates awarding one or more grants for field-enhancing activities. Proposals are due January 8, 2024 …

Call for Proposals: Law and Society Association Global Collaboration, January 8, 2024

January 8, 2024

Proposals are due January 8, 2024 12 PM ET (Noon) The Law and Society Association (LSA) endeavors to promote socio-legal study as a global field and to foster opportunities for collaboration within the global community of law and society scholars. Proposals are due January 8, 2024 12 PM ET (Noon) For details, visit the link …

Award Nominations: Law & Society Association, January 10, 2024

January 10, 2024

The Law and Society Association offers awards for scholarship in the field of law and society. This year, the awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The deadline to submit a nomination for one of our awards is January 10, 2024 ET (USA). To submit an award nomination, please login to your LSA profile and click …

Call for Papers: The 4th Machine Lawyering Conference, Hong Kong, January 12, 2024

January 12, 2024

23 May 2024 – 24 May 2024, Hong Kong The Machine Lawyering Conference has established itself as one of the premier academic conferences globally, focusing on the intersection of law and digital technology, broadly defined. Since its inception at CUHK LAW in 2020, the conference has garnered a stellar reputation in Asia and beyond. Participants …

Visiting Researcher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 2024-25, January 15, 2024

January 15, 2024

Applications for the CMES Visiting Researcher Program<https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/vr-program> are due January 15. CMES is currently accepting applications for unpaid Visiting Researcher positions for the 2024-25 academic year. The main appointment categories are Visiting Scholar, for tenured and tenure-track faculty members on paid leave from other institutions, and Visiting Fellow, typically specialists in the region who work …

Fellowship: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Fellowships in Law & Inequality, Law & Society Association, January 16, 2024

January 16, 2024

The Law and Society Association has partnered with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation to offer two exciting fellowship opportunities in Law & Inequality. Applications are now being accepted for one Doctoral and one Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality to start in September 2024. We welcome members of our community to …

International Conference: Islamic Theology: Uniting Diverse Voices, ISTAC-IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 18-19, 2024

January 18, 2024 - January 19, 2024

The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (University of St Andrews, UK) in collaboration with the al-Ghazali Chair of Epistemology and Civilisational Studies and Renewal at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC-IIUM, Malaysia) cordially invite you to attend our forthcoming international conference, Islamic Theology: Uniting Diverse Voices, now set to take place from the 18 to 19 January 2024 at ISTAC-IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.   …

Webinar: Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries): The jurisprudential corpus and the history of Ibadism in medieval Libya: additions and difficulties, January 24, 2024

January 24, 2024 @ 12:00 - 13:00

Session 5 (24 January 2024, 18h CET) The jurisprudential corpus and the history of Ibadism in medieval Libya: additions and difficulties, Houcine Khlifi (University of Sousse, Tunisia) Link on demand at: [email protected]