Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Research Paper Series
The Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Research Paper Series is a project of New York Law School and the Social Science Research Network.
One of the newest journals in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and the only one that focuses on this area of law, the Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Research Paper Series at New York Law School is a unique forum—multidisciplinary, international, and instantly accessible—for posting and locating current scholarship in the field. Abstracts, works in progress, and completed scholarly works on any matter of public or private law, legal theory, legal history, or legal policy or practice that relates to the modern or pre-modern Muslim world are welcome.
The series is edited by Sadiq Reza (New York Law School) and supported by a distinguished advisory board that consists of:
Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA)
Azizah al-Hibri (University of Richmond)
Nathan Brown (George Washington University)
Wael Hallaq (McGill)
Bernard Haykel (Princeton)
Mohammad Hashim Kamali (International Islamic University, Malaysia)
Ann Elizabeth Mayer (University of Pennsylvania)
David Powers (Cornell)
Abdulaziz A. Sachedina (Virginia)
Frank Vogel (formerly Harvard)
SOLICITATION OF ABSTRACTS
Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World is an interdisciplinary forum for posting abstracts, works-in-progress, and completed scholarly works on any matter of public or private law, legal theory, legal practice or policy that bears on the modern or pre-modern Muslim world, such as studies of:
- Topics in classical or contemporary shari'a;
- Legal theory, practice, institutions, or actors in pre-modern Muslim regions;
- Domestic law or practice in modern Muslim-majority nations, or in non-Muslim-majority nations insofar as it affects or relates to Muslims;
- International law or practice that affects or relates to Muslim-majority nations or to Muslims.
Contributions are welcome from scholars of law, history, religion, political science, international affairs or regional studies, gender studies, economics or finance, and any other discipline from which pertinent scholarship arises.
Archives
Vol. 2, Issue 2 (March 20, 2008)
Vol. 2, Issue 1 (February 14, 2008)
Vol. 1, Issue 1 (December 21, 2007)
Current Issue
Vol. 2, Issue 3 (May 8, 2008)
No. 08-18
"Riba,
Efficiency, and Prudential Regulation: Preliminary Thoughts,"
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Wisconsin International Law Journal, Forthcoming
No. 08-17
"Multiculturalism
and Family Law: The Case of Greek Muslims," Aspasia Tsaoussis,
ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens University of Economics &
Business; Eleni Zervogianni, University of Piraeus - Faculty of
International and European Studies
European Challenges In Contemporary Family Law, Katharina
Boele-Woelki and Tone Sverdrup, eds., pp. 209-239, Intersentia, 2008
No. 08-16
"Endorsing
Discrimination between Faiths: A Case of Extreme Speech?" John
Finnis, University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Notre Dame Law School
Extreme Speech and Democracy, Forthcoming
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09/2008
Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 08-08
No. 08-15
"Big
Love: Is Feminist Polygamy an Oxymoron or a True Possibility?"
Michele Alexandre, Affiliation Unknown
Hastings Women's Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2007
No. 08-14
"Khul':
Between Past and Present," Mida R. Zantout, McGill University -
Institute of Islamic Studies
No. 08-13
"Islamic
Finance and Securitization: Man-Made Tale or Reality," Bushan K.
Jomadar, University of Westminster - School of Law
