Friday, 20 January 2012

Encounters - An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society

Deadline: 1st July 2012

Sub-Themes:
Questions that are of particular interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
  • How is the law a 'living law'?
  • To what extent have legal thinkers integrated custom into the lawmaking process?
  • To what extent has the law provided an arena for individuals of different religions to negotiate and/or settle their disputes?
  • What sort of relationship has existed between the various schools of law and have legal thinkers drawn upon schools of law other than their own in formulating laws?
  • To what extent have Western legal systems accommodated Islamic law? What impact has this had onnotions of citizenship and minority rights?
  • How have state law/secular law and shari'a overlapped and/or informed one another in the lawmaking process? How has this relationship evolved over time?

  • Please submit your paper (6,000 to 10,000) in MS Word format to sabrina.joseph@zu.ac.ae by 1st July, 2012.
  • Submissions should include a cover letter to the editor describing the work in approximately one hundred words.
Guidelines:
Contact:
Dr. Sabrina Joseph
Email: sabrina.joseph@zu.ac.ae
Website: http://encounters.zu.ac.ae/papers.html

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