9 January
2013
3-5pm
Room 313
Seminar Co-Hosted at the Queen Mary -- University of London School of Law by the Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group and GLOCUL: Centre for Culture and Law
Professor Maleiha Malik, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s
College London
This paper takes current debates about religious law and religious
tribunals, and especially sharia tribunals, that have been most recently
discussed in the context of the attempts by Baroness Cox to regulate and
criminalise religious arbitration (second reading of her private Arbitration and
Mediation (Equality) Bill will be presented to the House of Lords on 19 October
2012). The paper uses methods from legal history and legal theory to challenge
the assumption that there is, or should be, a reductionist picture summed up as
'one law for all'. It suggests that, contrary to popular contemporary
assumptions that state law is the only valid form of normative regulation, an
analysis of earlier historical periods, especially the medieval period, suggests
a social field in which there were overlapping bodies of law, with very
different geographical spheres, as well as co-existing systems of jurisdiction
linked to distinct forms of communal life
This event is open to Queen Mary staff and PhD students. If you are not
from Queen Mary and would like to attend, please contact Dr Maks Del Mar by
email on m.delmar@qmul.ac.uk.
(Thanks to Prakash Shah)
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