[van-announce] Islam and the Law - Saturday February 2nd panel - St. John's College Manufacturing Islam Lecture Series

[Itrath]

Hello folks,

This weekend's panel is entitled, "Islam and the Law".  We have two cutting-
edge scholars of Islamic law who will each give us their insights and will
take us through another dynamic discussion period.

Our speakers and their topics this week are:

Dr. Mohammad H. Fadel - "Islam and the Law: A Historical Perspective"
Dr. Asifa Quraishi - "Islamic Law and the Capacity for Change"

[The bios of the speakers are below this email.]

The panel will again be held between 2-4 pm at the:

Fairmont Social Lounge
St. John¹s College
2111 Lower Mall

[Corner of University blvd and Lower Mall]

Please share this information with your contacts and bring your friends and
family to the panel.

Itrath


Dr. Quraishi will also be speaking at 2 other events this week:

"Islamic Law, Women, and the Headlines: A Commentary"
Thursday January 31, 4:00pm

SSK 9500 (Social Science and Communications K Building)
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC

Vancouver Institute Lecture Series
Saturday February 2, 2008 at 8:15 p.m.,
Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre,
University of British Columbia.
 
"Islamic Law, Women, and the Headlines: A Commentary"

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Bios of the speakers:

Mohammad H. Fadel 

Mohammad H. Fadel joined the Faculty of Law in January 2006. He received his
B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs (1988), a Ph.D. in Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (1995) and his J.D.
from the University of Virginia (1999). While at the University of Virginia
School of Law, Professor Fadel was a John M. Olin Law and Economics Scholar
and Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. Prior to law
school, Professor Fadel completed his Ph.D in Chicago, where he wrote his
dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law. Professor Fadel was
admitted to the Bar of New York in 2000 and practiced law with the firm of
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York, where he worked on a wide
variety of corporate finance transactions and securities-related regulatory
investigations. In addition, Professor Fadel served as a law clerk to the
Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th
Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District
Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Professor Fadel has published
numerous articles in Islamic legal history.


Asifa Quraishi

Asifa Quraishi is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses in Islamic law and U.S.
Constitutional Law.  She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School (SJD
2006) and other degrees from Columbia Law School (LLM 1998), University of
California ­ Davis (J.D. 1992) and University of California ­ Berkeley (BA
1988).  She has served as law clerk in United States federal courts (for
Judge Edward Dean Price, U.S. District Court for Eastern District of
California in 1993, and as the death penalty law clerk for the Court of
Appeals from 1994-1997).

Asifa Quraishi's recent publications include: Interpreting the Qur¹an and
the Constitution: Similarities in the Use of Text, Tradition and Reason in
Islamic and American Jurisprudence (28 Cardozo L. Rev. 67 (2006)), No
Altars: a Survey of Islamic Family Law in the United States (with co-author
Najeeba Syeed-Miller) in Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law (edited by
Lynn Welchman, Zed Books 2004), and Her Honor: An Islamic Critique of the
Rape Laws of Pakistan from a Woman-Sensitive Perspective (18 Mich. J. Int'l
L. 287 (1997)).  Currently, she is working on a socio-legal critique of the
methodology dominant in western feminist advocacy for Muslim women.  Among
her professional legal consultations, she has drafted a clemency appeal
brief in the case of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who was sentenced to flogging
for fornication in Zamfara, Nigeria.

Asifa Quraishi is a founding member of the National Association of Muslim
Lawyers (NAML), its sister organization Muslim Advocates, and American
Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA).  She is also an associate
of the Muslim Women¹s League, and has served as president and board member
of Karamah: Muslim Women for Lawyers for Human Rights. She is also the proud
mother of two young children, Menna (3) and Zekky (7) who keep her humble
and mindful of the present moment.