...irresistibly large profits for their firms. In response, firms have abandoned their old merit- and seniority-based systems and instead promote and empower the most financially productive lawyers. But because these...
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Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Jason C. Bivins, Edward E. Curtis, IV, Tracy Fessenden, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, David Kyuman Kim, Cecelia Lynch, John Lardas Modern, Justin Neuman, John Schmalzbauer and Diane Winston...that the “law, the institutions which promote it, and our relationship to them enfold deep ideological and political commitments which require a whole host of presumptions about justice and how...
Book introductions
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...in the late nineteenth century with colonial codes that defined Islamic law within the confines of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and ritual. These codes later became a basis for Muslim efforts...
Religion in the public sphere
Fighting words that are not fought
by Sindre Bangstad...Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) of 1966, Norway introduced a racism paragraph (135 (a)) into its penal code in 1970. In its current formulation,...
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Islamic feminism
by Jake Alter...approach between secular and Islamic feminism. Her book highlights many of the movements active throughout the Muslim world, including the grassroots reform of the Muslim family code (Moudawana) in Morroco...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Surviving the secular
by Ari Y. Kelman...create, or discover meaning in the wakes of disenchantment and rationalism. This kind of survival is never easy; one cannot simply look toward a book or a code or a...