Recent Presentations
Below is a list of some of my recent presentations. A full list can be found on my CV.
- Religious Conversion and Iraqi Courts: Promises and Perils, Bayan Claremont Islamic University (April 23, 2016)
- Real Estate and Islamic Finance, American Bar Association Professors’ Corner (April 12, 2016) (via video)
- Islam and the Modern State, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University (April 7-8, 2016)(commenter for papers by junior faculty)
- Iraqi Law and the Protection of Antiquities, Proceedings for the American Society of International Law (March 31, 2016)
- Abrahamic Religions & The Middle East, Duquesne University (Symposium on Inter-Religious Dialogue) (March 9, 2016)
- Islamic Law Pedagogy, University of California, Santa Barbara (February 20, 2016)
- Islamic Law and Estate Planning for Muslim Clients, American Bar Association Professors’ Corner (February 9, 2016)(via video)
- The Ironies of Shi’i Law, National University of Singapore (December 11, 2015)
- Lone Wolf Terrorism and the Classical Jihad: On the Contingencies of Violent Islamic Extremism, Florida International University College of Law (October 22, 2015) (via videoconference)
- Islamic Law in Modern Courts: Introduction to a Casebook, Center for International Legal Education Twentieth Anniversary Conference (September 11, 2015)
- Mediating Modern Law and Medieval Fiqh: On the Strategic Juristic Omission of the Najaf Jurists, Center of Islam, Law and Modernity, Durham University (United Kingdom) (August 18, 2015)
- Strategic Juristic Omission: On the Non-Muslim Bloodprice in Shi’i Islam, Global Islamic Criminal Law Conference (May 1, 2015)
- The Caliphate in Historical Context, University of Pittsburgh (Conference on Countering Extremism) (April 10, 2015)
- The State of the Iraqi Judiciary, Rand Corporation (Arlington. VA) (April 2, 2015)
- Iraq and Imperfect Constitution Making, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (February 26, 2015)
- Islamic Legal Realism, Harvard Law School (June 2, 2014)
- Conceptions of Maturity in Islamic and State Law, Al Mahdi Institute (April 4, 2014)
- Book Presentation on Negotiating in Civil Conflict, Allegheny Harvard, Yale, Princeton Club (March 27, 2014)
- Understanding the Shi’a Sunni Split, Kraemer Distinguished Scholar Address, College of William and Mary (March 13, 2014)
- Islam in the Iraq Constitution, William and Mary Law School (March 12, 2014)
- Commentary on The Struggle for Iraq’s Future, New York University School of Law (March 5, 2014)
- Negotiating in Civil Conflict, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Jan. 23, 2014)
- Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law, Harvard Law School (Nov. 8, 2013)