Visiting Fellows

Scholars and practitioners from around the world are selected by ILSP in a formal competition each February to spend the coming academic year or one term pursuing an innovative research project of their own at Harvard. ILSP is a resident program—our visiting researchers are housed in offices in our suite on the third floor of 125 Mt. Auburn St.

2008 Summer Visiting Fellow

Aaron Spevack (Ph.D. Boston University 2008; as of July 1, 2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College)
June 2008 - August 2008
Research topic: Naqli Usul al-Fiqh and 'Aqli Usul al-Fiqh from al-Shafi'i to al-Shirazi and Beyond
aspevack@law.harvard.edu
Room 342, 617-495-0580

2008-2009 Visiting Fellows

Ismail Acar (Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College)
September 2008 - December 2008
Research topic: Stoning in Islamic Law: A Contemporary Approach

Mohammad Ali Bahmaei (Assistant Professor of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran)
September 2008 - December 2008
Research topic: The Theoretical Justification of Intellectual Property Rights under Contemporary Islamic Legal Systems and Islamic Jurisprudence

Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
January 2009 - June 2009
Research topic: The Perception of Law, Politics and Religion Among the Post-Revolutionary Youth in Iran: The Case of the Holy City of Qum

Asghar Schirazi (independent scholar, Berlin)
January 2009 - June 2009
Research topic: Ethnic Conflict in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ahmed El Shamsy (Ph.D. Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University)
September 2008 - June 2009
Research topic: From al-Shafi'i to Shafi'ism: The Origins and Early Development of the Shafi'i School of Law in Ninth-Century Egypt

Himmet Taskomur (Ph.D. Harvard University 2008)
September 2008 - May 2009
Research topic: From Theology to Law: Theories of Good and Evil in Late Medieval and Early Modern Hanafi Legal Thought