essays
Torture and Islamic Law
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Abstract This article considers the relationship between Islamic law and the absence or practice of investigative torture in the countries of today’s Muslim world. Torture is forbidden in the constitutions, statutes, and treaties of most Muslim-majority countries, but a number of these countries are regularly named among those in which torture is practiced with apparent
- Published in Essays, Jurisprudence
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Systemic Racism in the U.S. Immigration Laws
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
by Kevin R. Johnson, UC Davis Abstract This Essay analyzes how aggressive activism in a California mountain town at the tail end of the nineteenth century commenced a chain reaction resulting in state and ultimately national anti-Chinese immigration laws. The constitutional immunity through which the Supreme Court upheld those laws deeply affected the future trajectory of
Sharia and Human Rights
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* Abstract: Being an extremely dynamic determinant system that can be both formalized and popularized, Sharia has the potential to be used to promote and protect rights as well as to be an instrument of exclusion and human rights abuse. In fact, that is the role Sharia has played throughout the history
- Published in Essays, Journal, Jurisprudence