Events This Academic Year

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 and Thursday, November 12, 2009: Fifth Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri Lecture on Legal Interpretation in the Muslim World. The lecture, given by Prof. Badria Al-Awadhi, Director of the Arab Center for Environmental Law, and former Dean of the Law School at the University of Kuwait, will be held in two parts. The theme will be recent developments in family law in Arab countries. Tuesday lecture, "An In-Depth Study of the GCC Personal Status Law," 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Austin North, Harvard Law School campus. Thursday lecture, "Selected Progressive Issues in the Arab Family Codes," 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Pound Hall 107, Harvard Law School campus.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Panel discussion on Women's Rights and Nationality Law in the GCC Countries and the Protection of Environment in Islam. Panel led by Prof. Badria Al-Awadhi, with Profs. Janet Halley, Marie-Claire Foblets, and Baber Johansen. Sponsored by ILSP, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of World Religions. Time: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Guy Bechor (Lauder School of Government, Strategy and Diplomacy, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel; ILSP Visiting Fellow, Fall 2009), "The Sanhuri Code and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009: Islamic Finance Project panel discussion on Islamic Finance, Petrodollar Recycling, and Economic Development. Paper presented by Mahmoud A. El-Gamal (Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Rice University, Houston, Texas). Panelists: Prof. Eric Chaney (Dept. of Economics, Harvard University), Prof. Samuel L. Hayes (Harvard Business School), Prof. Baber Johansen (Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Law School), and Prof. Jahangir Sultan (Bentley University). 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Monday, November 30, 2009: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Marie-Claire Foblets (Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Law, Belgium; ILSP Visiting Fellow, Fall 2009; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Erasmus Lecturer on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders, Harvard University), "Muslims under Secular Jurisdiction. A False Problem?" 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: John Chipman Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School campus.

Monday, January 25, 2010: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Hauwa Ibrahim (independent scholar, Nigeria, Italy; ILSP Visiting Fellow and HRP Visiting Fellow, 2009–2010), "Practicing Law in Shariah Courts: Reflections of a Legal Practitioner," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Monday, February 8, 2010: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Gideon Libson (Professor, Hebrew University Law School, Jerusalem; ILSP Visiting Fellow 2009–2010), "Jewish and Islamic Law: The Islamic Legal Background of Maimonidean Approaches," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Iza Hussin (Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts – Amherst; ILSP Visiting Fellow 2009–2010), "Paradoxes in Islamic Law – Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Leonard Wood (Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; ILSP Visiting Fellow 2009–2010), "Reconstructing the Golden Age of Comparative Law in Egypt, 1923-1952," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Saturday, March 27, 2010 & Sunday, March 28, 2010: 9th Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance on "Building Bridges across Financial Communities," presented by the Islamic Finance Project. For more information on this event, please visit the IFP website at http://www.ifp.harvard.edu/ or contact IFP director Nazim Ali at ifp@law.harvard.edu.

Monday, March 29, 2010: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Havva Guney-Ruebenacker (S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School; ILSP Visiting Fellow 2009–2010), "An Islamic Legal Realist Critique of the Traditional Theory of Marriage and Divorce in Islamic Law," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

Monday, April 5, 2010: ILSP Lecture Series. Lecture by Eugenia Kermeli (Lecturer in History, Bilkent University, Turkey; ILSP Visiting Fellow 2009–2010), "Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire and the Role of Custom," 4:00 to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception. Location: Pound Hall 335, Harvard Law School campus.

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