Conference on Political Economy of Islam and Muslim Societies
FLJS joins scholars from Princeton, Harvard, Stanford to debate Sharia
 FLJS is pleased to partner with the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS) for a two-day conference on the Political Economy of Islam, which opens on Friday.
FLJS will contribute to a session on 16 May on Sharia Law, featuring experts from Washington and SOAS.
Sharia Law and Constitutions
Saturday 16 May 2015
View full programme and reserve your place
|
Images & Imagination in Theorizing the Law
Workshop bringing together lawyers, art historians, and anthropologists
 Next week, a one-day workshop will examine the role of images in legal scholarship, bringing together legal and art history academics to establish a network of scholars interested in the intersection of images and law.
Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law
Wolfson College, Oxford
Wednesday 20 May 2015
Find out more and reserve your place
Browse all forthcoming events
|
Latest Publications
The rise of Chinese e-trading giant and patent policy for DNA sequencing
 The explosive growth of the Chinese company Alibaba to become the world's largest online trading platform has brought advances in consumer rights in China, but may pose a threat to China's state-backed banking system.
Ying Yu and Mingnan Shen assess what is at stake in our latest policy brief.
Download: Alibaba and the Threat to China's Banking Sector Ying Yu and Mingnan Shen
Ying Yu also investigates how environmental concerns may offer the key to increased consumer rights in China.
Read Op-Ed
Earlier this month, we published the findings of a workshop in which key figures from the UK Department of Health, academic experts, and lawyers discussed the policies and principles needed to guide patenting of human DNA.
Patent Policy in Genomics and Human Genetics: A Public Health Perspective Katerina Sideri
|
News: Snowden, the NSA, and free speech
Past events assess balance of free speech, religion, and national security
 In the week that NSA surveillance revealed by Ed Snowden was ruled illegal, we convened a panel of experts to scrutinize the revelations that triggered an ongoing debate over national security and information privacy.
Read more
In March, Professor Sir Richard Sorabji contributed some much-needed philosophical and historical context to the recent debate on the balance between free speech and religious freedoms.
|
