Mohannad and Rana Malas Lecture in Islamic Legal Studies Presented by Professor Adnan A. Zulfiqar

Law Between Self and Society:
Collective Duties in Islamic Law—Past, Present, and Future

Presented by Adnan A. Zulfiqar, Associate Professor and Marianne D. Short & Ray Skowyra Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law

Adnan A. Zulfiqar, J.D./Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Law & Marianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School. He also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Theology and the program in Islamic Civilization and Societies at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences. His interdisciplinary research centers on Islamic law & legal history, criminal law & procedure and human rights, with a specific interest in the role of duties and discretion in the law. His current book project centers on the development of collective duties in Islamic law in the 11th and 12th centuries. His scholarship has appeared in various academic journals including the American Journal of Legal History, Yale Journal of International Law, the Journal of Comparative Law (U.K.) and Harvard's Journal of Islamic Law. Adnan previously was on the faculty at Rutgers Law School and has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA-Damascus) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has also worked as an international legal consultant with the UNDP and IDLO, helping draft and implement criminal codes in the Maldives and Somalia. He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, along with an M.A. and Ph.D. in near eastern languages & civilizations. He also earned an M.L.S. in international affairs from Georgetown University and a B.A. in religion and anthropology from Emory University. He has spent over a decade living and studying in the Middle East, South Asia and sub-saharan Africa.

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Dinner reception to follow program.