| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. |
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Welcome |
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Mark V. Tushnet
Georgetown University and AALS
President |
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Introduction |
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Frank E. Vogel
Harvard Law School and Chair
Planning Committee for Joint AALS, American
Society of Comparative Law, and Law and Society
Association Workshop on Islamic Law |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. |
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Keynote: Relevance of Islamic Law |
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M. Cherif Bassiouni
DePaul University |
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| 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
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Plenary - Basics of Islamic Law |
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Foundations |
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Sherman Jackson
Associate Professor of Arabic and
Islamic Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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Characteristics |
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John Makdisi
St. Thomas University |
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Legal System |
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Frank E. Vogel
Harvard Law School
(Moderator: Nora V. Demleitner, Hofstra University) |
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This session, with three professors who teach Islamic law in American law schools, offers a basic introduction to the vast and complex field of Islamic law. The panel
covers three dimensions of Islamic law: some of the foundational ideas by which Islamic law has understood and justified itself; some notable characteristics that
have marked it in comparison with other laws; and some of the ideas and institutions by which it has generated effective legal systems. |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. |
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Questions and Answers |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 a.m. |
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Refreshment Break |
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| 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. |
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A Court’s Application of Islamic Law (with Questions & Answers) |
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Mohammad H. Fadel
Esq., Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
New York, New York
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Anna Wuerth
Richmond, Virginia |
| This plenary, in which an anthropologist of Yemen and an Islamic law scholar collaborate, uses an actual case from modern-day Yemen to reveal aspects of legal reasoning and legal process in an Islamic court. The study seeks to exemplify matters covered in the first panel and suggest other comparative insights. |
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| 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
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Lunch on your own |
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| 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
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Women’s Rights and Islamic Law (with Questions & Answers) |
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Azizah Y. al-Hibri
The University of Richmond |
Irfana Anwer, Esq.,
Assistant Executive Director
Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, Washington, D.C. |
In this session a noted lawyer and an Islamic legal scholar, both long active in the field of women’s legal rights, draw lessons from their work relating to
Islamic law. They explain and compare issues arising in two distinct settings: Egypt and the United States. |
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| 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. |
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Concurrent Sessions |
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Property/Procedure |
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John Makdisi
St. Thomas University |
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Family Law |
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Asifa Quraishi
Doctoral Student
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
George N. Sfeir
Former Senior Legal Specialist on the Arab States and Islamic Law
Law Library of Congress |
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Criminal Law |
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M. Cherif Bassiouni
DePaul University |
David F. Forte
Cleveland State University |
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Contracts/Commercial/Finance |
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Mohammad H. Fadel
Esq., Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
New York, New York |
Frank Edward Vogel
Harvard Law School |
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Conflict Resolution |
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Amr Abdullah
Research and Evaluation Director
Peace Operations Policy Program
School of Public
Policy
George Mason University
Arlington, Virginia |
Naima Said
Esq., Naima Said & Associates
Columbia, Maryland |
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International Law |
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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Emory University |
Karima E. Bennoune
Rutgers University
Newark |
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Legal Reasoning |
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Bernard Kenneth Freamon
Seton Hall University |
Aron Zysow
Research Associate
Islamic Legal Studies Program
Harvard Law School |
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Islamic Law in Muslim Majority Countries |
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Lama Abu-Odeh
Georgetown University
Mariam A. Nawabi
Esq., Dechert LLP
Washington,
D.C. |
Mark E. Cammack
Southwestern University |
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Islamic Law in the United States and Europe |
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Christina Jones-Pauly
Fellow
Bunting Institute
Harvard University |
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| 3:45 - 4:00 p.m. |
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Refreshment Break |
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| 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. |
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Plenary - Debates in Islamic Constitutionalism |
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Azizah Y. al-Hibri
The University of Richmond
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Emory University |
Tariq Ramadan
Professor of Islamic Studies
University of Fribourg
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Professor of Philosophy
College of Geneva |
Moderator: Noah R. Feldman, New York University
This session is a discussion of modern Western constitutionalism and Islamic law. The participants, all US based Muslim scholars, set out and defend their own religious-legal opinions on relevant issues. Chairing the panel is a constitutional law scholar advising the Coalition Authority in Iraq on Islamic law issues arising in the framing of an Iraqi constitution. |
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