Podcast – Intisar Rabb on Interpreting Metacanons

Join the discussion with PIL Faculty Director, Professor Intisar Rabb, on interpreting metacanons in this special podcast episode of Borderlines. The podcast builds upon ideas raised at the 2022 Irvine Tragen Lecture on Comparative Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Professor Rabb discusses her leading research on shared methods of interpretation for textualists across different systems. She discusses the history and resurgent use of legal canons – principles of interpretation that judges derive from common law and use when resolving issues unclear from the text alone – including their ancient role in Islamic law and modern application at the U.S. Supreme Court. Shared similar legal canons threading across systems with like linguistic features, known as metacanons, are broken down. Dialogue covers how statutory interpretation connects to civil and criminal legal systems, the dubious term “civilized nations” in international law, and battling stereotypes of Islamic law with new scholarly resources and coded data. 

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Podcast – Mohsen Kadivar

Join the discussion with Professor Mohsen Kadivar (Duke University) on Islam and tolerance following Harvard’s “Islam and Toleration” conference with Harvard PhD Candidate Ari Schriber. Available on the PIL podcast page and Soundcloud channel.

 

Podcast – Khaled Abou El Fadl

Join the discussion with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl (Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law) on his book “Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age” and his recent lecture at Harvard Law School titled “Islam in the Age of Fear”. Available on the PIL podcast page and Soundcloud channel.

Podcast – Sylvia Vatuk

Join the discussion with Professor Sylvia Vatuk (Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago, Anthropology) on her recently published book “Marriage and its Discontents: Women, Islam and the Law in India”. Available on the PIL podcast page and Soundcloud channel.

Podcast – Ahmed El Shamsy

Join the discussion with Professor Ahmed El Shamsy (Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) on the study of Islamic Law, co-hosted by Harvard Law School Visiting Fellow Dr Dana Lee and PhD candidate Ari Schriber. Available on the PIL podcast page and Soundcloud channel.