Berkeley School of Law
Warren Room, 295 Law Building
Fri. April 6, 2018 - Day One
8:45 am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
9:00 am |
Welcome Remarks |
9:30 – 11:00 am |
SESSION I: Mosque and State Moderator: Charles Rice Jeremy Gunn “Islam and the Concept of the Separation of Religion and the State” Emmanuel Tawil “Islamic Law as part of the Law of the Land” |
11:00 – 12:30 pm |
SESSION II: Islam and Legal Systems Moderator: Charles Rice Henning Plöger “The Constitutional framework for Islam and Islamic law in Germany” Blandine Chelini-Pont “How to appraise the current ‘sharia courts’ system in Great Britain?” |
12:30 – 1:30 pm |
Lunch (on premises, boxed lunches and informal conversation) |
1:30 – 3:30 pm |
SESSION III Moderator: Charles Rice Arthur Shartsis “Immigrant Integration in France and Germany” |
3:30 – 4:00 pm |
Coffee Break |
4:00 – 5:30 pm |
SESSION IV: Schools as Public Places Moderator: Laurent Mayali Anne-Violaine Hardel “The 2004 Ban on Wearing Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Public Schools and the Relationship between Church and State in France: “Is the “dialogue procedure” a conceivable conciliation process?” Silvie Toscer-Angot “The institutional Recognition of Islam in German State Schools” |
Sat. April 7, 2018 - Day Two
9:00 – 9:30 am |
Breakfast |
9:30 – 10:30 am |
Session V: Family Law and European Identity Moderator Laurent Mayali Andrea Büchler “Islamic Family Law and Ordre Public in Continental Europe” Mohammad Fadel “Islamic Family Law, Private International Law and European Public Order” |
10:30 – 10:45 am |
Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:00 pm |
Baber Johansen “Marriage and Filiation in Islamic and European Law” |
12:00 – 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Session VI: Religious Norms and Legal Order Moderator Arthur Shartsis Mathias Rohe “The informal application of Islamic legal norms in Germany – scope and limits” |
3:00 – 4:30 pm |
Comparative Perspectives: Where do we go from here? |
VENUE
All sessions held at:
University of California, Berkeley
School of Law
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