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The Journal of Law and Religion is an international, interdisciplinary forum committed to studying law in its social context, including moral and religious views of law and life. A recognized source for policymakers, scholars, and educators, its subscription base represents six continents and includes over 390 law and theological libraries, including Yale University Law School Library, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, Baha'i World Centre Library, Fondation du Roi Abdul Aziz Al Saoud, Sharjah University, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Inquiries may be emailed to Linda Berglin, Production Manager.
Save the Date: September 27-29, 2012
2012 Journal of Law and Religion Fall Symposium and Lifetime Achievement Award
Political upheaval in the Middle East and elsewhere, most notably the Arab Spring of 2011, has been accompanied by the renewal and flourishing of Islamic jurisprudence around the world, including in the West. Borrowing from the deepest roots of their tradition, emerging Muslim scholars in the legal and religious academies, human rights activists, and community leaders are re-thinking how an authentically Islamic jurisprudence can respond to local, national and global community issues of the twenty-first century. This symposium highlights this innovative, responsive thinking and invites emerging Islamic scholars into a community of conversation with each other, senior Islamic law scholars, and others interested in this discourse about the future of Islamic jurisprudence.
Symposium topics include:
- Workshops convened by speakers selected through a Call for Papers
- Islamic Legal Theory
- Feminism, Gender, Islam and Law
- Islamic Understandings of International Law and Human Rights
- Islamic Law through Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Comparative Law Approaches to Islamic Law
- Islam in Public in the West: Muslim Voices in the Public Square
The Journal of Law and Religion's fifteenth annual Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to William Graham, Dean of Harvard Divinity School, whose scholarly work has focused on early Islamic religious history and textual traditions and problems in the history of world religion.
The 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.
Jonathan K. Crane, Torture: Judaic Twists
Seow Hon Tan, Religion in the Abortion Discourse in Singapore: A Case Study of the Relevance of Religious Arguments in Law-Making in Multi-Religious Democracies
Featured in Our Upcoming Issue
Mark A. Chinen, Crumbs from the Table: The Syrophoenician Woman and International Law
Daphna Hacker, Religious Tribunals in Democratic States: Lessons from the Israeli Rabbinical Courts