25 May 2018
About 20 academics from the US, UK, Germany, Norway and Israel are having a workshop on "Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems".
The chairs, Saïd Arjomand and Nathan J. Brown, have selected participants "not simply for the quality and focus of their individual research but also for their demonstrated interest and ability at working across disciplinary, historical, and geographical divides". During the workshop, they have intended to "draw heavily on a workshop format to ensure cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches and produce a coherent set of essays on the history, politics and sociology of law in the Middle East, while collaboratively elaborating a comparative analytical framework for doing so".
