Behind the Rule - Law and Identity
Workshop, organized by Ahmed Abd-Elsalam and Francesca Petricca
03./04.07.2009
Cooperation: SFB 586 "Differenz und Integration", MLU; Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, MLU
Overview
Objective
The goal of this workshop is to analyze the potential interrelations between law and identity in an interdisciplinary perspective.
Our aim is to study controversial tendencies in a society through the analysis of the dialectical relations within plural juridical systems.
Central questions to be addressed at the workshop include:
• Can law be a determinant factor in the creation of a common Identity?
• Which are the other factors influencing social actors while choosing a legal reference framework in contexts of normative pluralism?
• Can a legal system be an instrument of resistance against homogenization?
The workshop “law and identity” will be organized in two parts. In the first one the invited social scientists will give lectures on the topic “law and identity”. In the second part case studies will be presented and analyzed by scholars representing different disciplines.
Programme
First Part: Lectures on "Law and Identity" (Friday, 3rd July 2009; Universitätsplatz, Burse zur Tulpe, Musikzimmer)
1 pm Welcome
1.15 pm Welcome speech and Keynote Lecture
Matthias Kaufmann, Sprecher der GS SCM, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Legal orders and other identities
2.15 pm Keynote Lecture
Keebet and Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Law and Identity in plural legal orders
3 - 3.30 pm Coffee Break
3.30 pm Public Lecture
Frank Stewart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The three-party contract in Bedouin customary law
Second Part: Case Studies (Saturday, 04.07.2009; Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, Seminar Room I)
9 - 11 am
Religious identity and legal orders
Chair: Jürgen Paul, Oriental Seminar, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
- Katja Jansen Fredriksen, University of Bergen
Muslims in Family Law Cases in Norway - Bertram Turner, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Legal diversity and the Moroccan-Canadians' struggle with multiple identities - Patrick Franke, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Between factionalism and the Effort for reconciliation: Madhhab Identity in the Works of the Meccan Scholar Mulla ʿAli al-Qari
11 - 11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 am - 1 pm
Local customary practices and legal identity
Chair: Frank Stewart, University of New York
- Judith Beyer, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Law ‘in the blood': metaphors of embodiment and practices of customizing law - Uri Mintzker, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
The Manshad in the law of the Bedouin of the Negev
1 - 2.30 pm Lunch break
2.30 - 4.30 pm
Plural legal identities
Chair: Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
- Ahmed Abd-Elsalam, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Who is Badw? On the laws of Bedouin Tribunals - Thomas Hüsken, Universität Bayreuth,
Competetive Legal Pluralism in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya - Francesca Petricca, GS SCM, Halle
Mixed law, mixed identities. A case of legal crossover in colonial Egypt (1911-1938)
Workshop Report
Workshop Report by Francesca Petricca as pdf:
WorkshopReport_Behind the rule.pdf
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