Feb. 18 | 12:00-13:00 EST | Zoom
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif examines “wali refusal” cases, where women’s right to marry is held hostage by estranged fathers who refuse to sign their daughters’ marriage application.
Feb. 10 | 11:00-12:00 EST | Zoom
J. Andrew Bush discusses his recently published book, Between Muslims: Religious Differences in Iraqi Kurdistan. Bush’s book is based on extensive fieldwork in the Kurdistan region of Iraq between 2004 and 2013.
Jan. 29 | 13:00-17:00 EST | Zoom
An invitation-only manuscript workshop for Professor Kristen Stilt for her book project, Halal Animals: Food, Faith, and the Future of Planetary Health.
Nov. 10 | 12:00-13:00 EST | Zoom
Samy Ayoub examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Hanafi legal works from the Ottoman world of the 16th to 19th centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists.
Oct. 14 | 12:00-13:00 EDT | Zoom
Join our panel to discuss community-oriented movement lawyering in Lebanon and the ways in which activists and lawyers engage with the country’s most vulnerable communities to build, support, and amplify transformative social movements.
Sept. 28 | 12:00-13:00 EST | Zoom
Gehan Gunatilleke and Yee Htun discuss how constitutional and treaty provisions are vulnerable to majoritarian infiltration.
Sept. 9 | 12:00-13:30 EST | Zoom
Zakia Soman and Dr. Noorjehan Safia Niaz discuss their pioneering activism for equal rights and equal citizenship of Muslim women in India and linkages with Muslim women’s movements across the globe.
Feb. 25 | 12-1 pm | Austin North
Philippe Sands, Arsalan Suleman, and Yee Htun discuss the ICJ’s case concerning the Myanmar military’s treatment of the Rohingya.
Feb. 24 | 12-1 pm | Pound 102
PLS Director Professor Kristen Stilt’s talk focuses on the question, “What are Islamic conceptions of animal rights?”
Dec. 2 | 5-6 pm | Barker Center, Room 133
Farzin Vejdani examines shifting understandings of what constituted the public and the private from criminal cases in 19th-century Shiraz.