Book Talk: Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore - Islamic Law

Speaker: Arif Jamal, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

Discussant: Kerstin Steiner, Associate Professor, La Trobe University

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Feb 23, 2022 01:00 PM London

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Book description:
This title is a compact and succinct volume on Islamic law in Singapore covering Islamic law in Singapore (from the position of, as well as administration of Islamic law) and Muslim personal law (including betrothal and inheritance). Consistent with other volumes in the series (and Halsbury’s volumes in other Commonwealth jurisdictions), the volume is practitioner-orientated, largely descriptive of the relevant law, and designed to function as an accessible and ‘one stop’ statement-cum-introduction of the relevant law.

About the Author
Dr Arif Jamal is Associate Professor and Vice Dean (Graduate Studies) in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of law and religion, Muslim legal traditions, comparative law, and legal and political theory.

He has held visiting appointments at law schools in the US, Italy, Hong Kong and Israel, as well as at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. He is the author of Islam, Law and the Modern State and has published widely. Currently, Dr Jamal serves as joint Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 

Dr Jamal holds a BA from McGill University, an LLB from the University of Toronto and was called to the Bar of British Columbia. Thereafter, he earned LLM degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), with a specialisation on Islamic Law, and completed his PhD at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UC).