Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law
The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. By overlaying one set of norms on another we overlook the deeplycontextual nature of how legal rules operate in a society, and meaningful comparison and discussion is impossible.In this volume, leading experts in Islamic law and international human ri…
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Weitere Autoren: Ellis, Mark (Hrsg.) / Glahn, Benjamin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-164570-9
- EAN: 9780191645709
- Produktnummer: 14480567
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'622 KB
Über den Autor
Anver M. Emon is associate professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. His research focuses on premodern and modern Islamic legal history and theory; premodern modes of governance and adjudication; and the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim world. The author of Islamic Natural Law Theories (Oxford University Press, 2010), Professor Emon is the editor in chief of Middle East Law and Governance: AnInterdisciplinary Journal.As Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA) Mark Ellis leads the foremost international organization of bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers in the world. Prior to joining the IBA, he spent ten years as the first Executive Director of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), a project of the American Bar Association (ABA). Providing technical legal assistance to twenty-eight countries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, and to theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, CEELI remains the most extensive international pro bono legal assistance project ever undertaken by the US legal community. He served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, chaired byJustice Richard J. Goldstone and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia's War Crimes Tribunal and was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal.Benjamin Glahn is the Former Deputy Chief Program Officer and Program Director at the Salzburg Global Seminar.
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