Seminar: Claims to justice

TID: Torsdag den 5. december kl. 09.30-16.00

STED: Dansk Institut for Menneskerettigheder, Wilders Plads 8K, 1403 København K (Nordskov mødelokale)

CLAIMS TO JUSTICE: ISLAMIC LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

PROGRAMME

9:30 Welcome
Hanna Ziadeh, Senior Advisor, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark

TID: Torsdag den 5. december kl. 09.30-16.00

STED: Dansk Institut for Menneskerettigheder, Wilders Plads 8K, 1403 København K (Nordskov mødelokale)

CLAIMS TO JUSTICE: ISLAMIC LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

PROGRAMME

9:30 Welcome
Hanna Ziadeh, Senior Advisor, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark

9:50 Islamic law and constitutional debates in the Middle East: An overview
Ebrahim Afsah, Professor of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

10:20 Law, politics and morality
Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, University of London, UK

10:50 The ‘dawla madaniyya’ and the judiciary in the Arab spring
Rainer Grote, Director, Max Planck Institute, Germany

11:20 Response
Antoni Abat, Professor of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

11:40 Lunch

12:30 Islamic law and constitutional debates in Yemen
Amal Basha, Advisor to the Ministry of Human Rights, Yemen

13:00 Islamic law and constitutional debates in Tunisia
Mazen Shaqoura, Deputy Country Representative, OHCHR, Tunisia

13:30 Coffee

13:45 Islamic law and constitutional debates in Egypt
Amr Salah, Youth Representative, 50th Constitution Committee

14:15 Response
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Professor, New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

14:35 Debate

15:30 End of seminar

Please register by sending an e-mail to Marie Juul Petersen, [email protected], no later than Tuesday 3rd December, 2013.