Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 2:10pm to 3:10pm
Location: 
Online

Jurisdictional Exceptionalisms:  Islamic Law, International Law, and Parental Child Abduction 

Professors Anver Emon and Urfan Khaliq will discuss their new book Jurisdictional Exceptionalisms (Cambridge University Press, 2021) which examines the legal issues associated with a parent's forced removal of their children to reside in another country following relationship dissolution or divorce. Through an analysis of Public and Private International Laws, and Islamic law - historical and as implemented in contemporary Muslim Family Law States - the authors uncover distinct legal lexicons that centre children's interests in premodern Islamic legal doctrines, modern State practice, and multilateral conventions on children. While legal advocates and policy makers pursue global solutions to parental child abduction, this volume identifies fundamental obstacles, including the absence of shared understandings of jurisdiction. By examining the relevant law and practice, the study exposes the polarised politics embedded in the technical legal rules on jurisdiction. Presenting a new, innovative method in comparative legal history, the book examines the beliefs, values, histories, doctrines, institutions and practices of legal systems presumed to be in conflict with one another.

More information and the Zoom link are available here: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/scholarship-publications/workshops-and-seminars/globalization-law-justice-workshop-series