Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law
Edited by Anver M. Emon, Mark S. Ellis, and Benjamin Glahn
Author Information
Anver M. Emon, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,Mark S. Ellis, Executive Director, International Bar Association,Benjamin Glahn, Former Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
Anver M. Emon is professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. His research focuses on premodern and modern Islamic legal history and theory; premodern modes of governance and adjudication; and the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim world. The author of Islamic Natural Law Theories (OUP, 2010) and Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law (OUP 2012), Professor Emon is the editor in chief of Middle East Law and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and a series editor of Oxford Islamic Legal Studies.
As Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA) Mark Ellis leads the foremost international organization of bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers in the world. Prior to joining the IBA, he spent ten years as the first Executive Director of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), a project of the American Bar Association (ABA). Providing technical legal assistance to twenty-eight countries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, and to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, CEELI remains the most extensive international pro bono legal assistance project ever undertaken by the US legal community. He served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, chaired by Justice Richard J. Goldstone and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia's War Crimes Tribunal and was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal.
Benjamin Glahn is the Former Deputy Chief Program Officer and Program Director at the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Contributors:
John B Bellinger III, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, DC, and Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law, Council on Foreign Relations; formerly The Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Nehal Bhuta, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, The New School GPIA, New York
Kathleen Cavanaugh, Lecturer of International Law in the Faculty of Law, Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), National University of Ireland, Galway
Hans Corell, Former Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs, United Nations
Mark Ellis, Executive Director, International Bar Association
Anver M. Emon, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Benjamin Glahn, Former Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
Justice Richard Goldstone (ret), Constitutional Court of South Africa; Former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Murad Hussain, Associate, Arnold and Porter LLP, Washington DC
Malik Imtiaz, President, National Human Rights Council, Malaysia
Ratna Kapur, Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations; Lecturer, Indian Society for International Law
Urfan Khaliq, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Law School, UK
Robin Lovin, Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University; Fellow, Center of Theological Inquiry
Muhammad Khalid Masud, Former Chairman, Council of Islamic Ideology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Errol Mendes, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Research Associate, Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
Edward Mortimer, Senior Vice-President, Salzburg Global Seminar; former Director of Communications, United Nations Secretary-General
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (ret), U.S. Supreme Court
Intisar Rabb, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Boston College Law School
Javaid Rehman, Professor of Law, Brunel Law School, Brunel University
Abdullah Saeed, Director of Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Justice Adel Omar Sherif, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt
Sumner B. Twiss, Distinguished Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion, Florida State University
Lynn Welchman, Professor of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
