Islamic Law and its Implementation in Asia and the Middle-East - International Conference

ISLAMIC LAW AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN ASIA AND THE MIDDLE-EAST

International Conference, Friday 6 October 2017

British Institute of International and Comparative Law & Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

In conjunction with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), the editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (AYBHRHL) invite submissions for the above conference to be held at the British Institute of International & Comparative Law, Russell Square, London. The conference focuses on the topic of Islamic law and the implementation of Islamic law in Asia and the Middle East.

Honourable Guests and Key Note Speakers

• Sir Michael Wood, KCMG. Member of the United Nations International Law Commission.
• Dr Kamal Hossain, former foreign Minister of Bangladesh, former UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan and member of the UN Compensation Commission.
• Professor Surya Subedi OBE (Leeds), former United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia.
• His Excellency Judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, former Prime Minister of Jordan and former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (to be confirmed).
• Dr Ahmed Shaheed (Essex University), UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.
• Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali, (Warwick University) former UN Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.
• Professor Mashood A Baderin, SOAS, former UN Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Sudan.
• Professor Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies (Exeter).
• Dr. iur. Damos Dumoli Agusman, Secretary of Directorate General Legal Affairs, and International Treaties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia.

AYBHRHL

Islamic Law appears as the featured theme for volume: II of AYBHRHL (2018). AYBHRHL is published annually by Brill-Nijhoff and is edited by Professor Javaid Rehman (Editor-in-Chief) Dr Ayesha Shahid (Associate Editor) and Dr Meryl Dickinson (Assistant Editor). The Yearbook invites submission on a wide variety of human rights and humanitarian issues including those focusing on contemporary socio-economic, legal and political developments impacting upon human rights and humanitarian law within Asia and globally. The Yearbook also welcomes submissions based on theoretical perspectives on human rights and humanitarian law with specific relevance to Asia. Submission deadline for full papers for volume II of AYBHRHL (2018): 1 August, 2017.

Selected papers from the 6 October conference will be published in volume: II AYBHRHL (2018).

Abstracts (for conference papers) should be no more than 500 words in length and should be submitted to Professor Javaid Rehman at Javaid.Rehman@Brunel.ac.uk or Dr Meryl Dickinson at mdickinson@brookes.ac.uk. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 May 2017.

Any queries can also be submitted to Dr Dickinson at mdickinson@brookes.ac.uk.