Applied Study of Law and Religion

Shariah and Legal Globalisation Conference

14–16 June 2010, Oxford Brookes University

The Conference

By hosting this conference, the Group seeks to build connections between experts working in two transnational legal systems – the Anglophone community working in international law, international trade, comparative constitutionalism and human rights, and the Arabic speaking community working in Shariah. Over the three days of the conference we will deal with Shariah and Human Rights, Shariah and International Business, and Shariah and Constitutionalism. A host of eminent scholars from Britain and the Islamic world will offer their academic views on the issues in question.

Applied Study of Law and Religion Group

The Group takes a legal perspective on how law and religion interact, focussing on the individual believer, the religious organisation, and the State. Our work includes:

the national law of the United Kingdom (e.g. Edge & Cumper, "First amongst equals: The English State and the Anglican Church in the 21st Century?", 83 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 601-623)
the law of the European Union (e.g. Vickers, Religon and belief discrimination in employment: The EU Law, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007)
the international and comparative law (e.g. Edge, Religion and Law: An Introduction, Ashgate, 2006)

We provide a home for visiting scholars and also provide support for doctoral projects. We welcome applications to join the Group as a doctoral student, and can offer supervision across a broad range of topics concerning law and religion. We are particularly keen to receive applications in the areas of:

comparative law
international law
Islamic law
law concerning new religious movements

Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University is the only UK modern university to have achieved 24 subjects rated as excellent for teaching. It has a longstanding reputation for employability, and is host to two national centres of excellence in teaching and learning. The University can trace its history back as far as 1865 with the foundation of the Oxford School of Art, which over the centuries merged and grew to become today’s university. It was in 1992 that the then Oxford Polytechnic became Oxford Brookes University, naming itself after John Henry Brookes, first Principal of the Schools of Technology, Art and Commerce.

Oxford

Recognised across the world as a centre of excellence in education, science and technology, Oxford is an economic and technological power house and a well-renowned seat of the higher education in the Western world.