平特五不中

L'arbitrage religieux

L鈥檃rbitrage religieux : du multiculturalisme juridique

L鈥橧nstitut de droit compar茅 et听la Soci茅t茅 d鈥檃rbitrage de 平特五不中 听vous invitent 脿 une discussion traitant l鈥檃rbitrage religieux.

Nous avons invit茅 le rabbin Michael Whitman, expert en droit talmudique, et le professeur Ahmed Ibrahim, expert en droit islamique, pour discuter des controverses 脿 l鈥檌ntersection de la culture juridique dominante et de la religion dans le contexte de l鈥檃rbitrage. La discussion sera mod茅r茅e par la professeure Natasha Bakht de l鈥橴niversit茅 d鈥橭ttawa, experte en arbitrage religieux ainsi qu鈥檈n droit de la famille. L鈥櫭﹙猫nement misera particuli猫rement sur la perspective ontarienne, l鈥橭ntario 茅tant l脿 o霉 le d茅bat a pris son essor.

Date :听le mardi 26 f茅vrier 2013

R茅ception :听17h00 脿 18h00, salle 16, Pavillon Chancellor-Day

Discussion :听18h30 脿 20h00, salle 100, Nouveau Pavillon Chancellor-Day

Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 平特五不中

De la nourriture sera servi. Veuillez indiquer toute restriction alimentaire 听De mets cacher et halal seront command茅s.

RSVP 脿 mcgill [at] arbitrationsociety.ca

Au sujet des participants (en anglais seulement):

Rabbi Michael Whitman

Rabbi Michael Whitman is the spiritual leader of the ADATH (Adath Israel Poale Zedek Anshei Ozeroff Synagogue) in Hampstead, Quebec. He is also a Sessional Lecturer at 平特五不中 Faculty of Law. Rabbi Whitman serves on the boards of Auberge Shalom鈥our femmes, Kollel Torah Mitzion of Montreal, Cote St. Luc / Hampstead / Snowdon Eruv, Westmount Eruv, Rabbinical Council Conversion Program, and (former Executive Board Member) Rabbinical Council of America. He is past president of the Rabbinical Council of Montreal and past president of the Greater Montreal Board of Rabbis.

Rabbi Whitman served for fourteen years as the spiritual leader of Young Israel of New Haven, Connecticut, USA. During that time, he worked at Yale University Hillel and taught at Yale University Law School.

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

Professor Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim began his appointment at the Institute of Islamic Studies on August 1, 2012, following his appointment as Fellow in Europe in the Middle East鈥擳he Middle East in Europe (EUME) program at the Forum Transregionale Studien of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, Germany in 2011-2012. He received his PhD in Islamic law from Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (2011). His dissertation, entitled 鈥淪chool Boundaries and Social Utility in Islamic Law: The Theory and Practice of听Talf墨q听and听Tatabbu士 al-Rukha峁Lin Egypt鈥, traces the pragmatic use of Sunni legal pluralism in 20th-century Egypt to developments that took place in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods in court practice and legal theory.

His work explores the interaction between legal theory and court practice using both Ottoman archival materials and unpublished legal theoretical manuscripts. He links shifts in juristic discourse on the issue of pragmatic eclecticism to institutional as well as discursive changes that took place around the 13th century. He is currently working on a book that examines the interaction between court practice and legal theory in Egypt with regards to this question of legal pluralism and its implications for legal change.

Photo par Michael Slobodian

Natasha Bakht

Natasha Bakht is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Faculty of Law. She served as a law clerk to Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada and was called to the bar of Ontario in 2003.听 Professor Bakht鈥檚 research interests are generally in the area of law, culture and minority rights and specifically in the intersecting area of religious freedom and women鈥檚 equality.听 She has written extensively on the issue of religious arbitration in family law.听 Her latest works are about the rights of niqab-wearing women; she was recently cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of听R v NS.听

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