A year in the court of Aintab
Leslie Peirce’s Morality Tales makes a local court, rather than an abstract catalogue of rules, the centre of a study of law and gender.
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A half-inch beard and the evidence in Holt v. Hobbs
The 2015 prison-accommodation case turned on the justification for a particular restriction, with a particular religious request before the court.
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Land sales in a Bahrain register, 1913–1921
The Qatar Digital Library’s record IOR/R/15/2/2017 offers a compact lesson in how a register’s arrangement shapes its use as evidence.
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Shamil Bank and the wording of a governing-law clause
The 2004 appeal shows why a contractual reference to sharia needs to be read within the court’s account of governing law and incorporation.
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Women and the transmission of religious knowledge
Asma Sayeed’s study gives the history of learning a longer chronology than a list of exceptional women can provide.
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The 2022 weddings report: from buildings to officiants
The Law Commission’s report proposed a change in the unit of regulation. A recommendation and its implementation need separate histories.
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Legal documents in the Arabic Papyrology Database
Receipts, leases, sales and petitions put documentary writing alongside the better-known literature of jurisprudence.
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Islamic law and colonial negotiation in Hussin’s account
The Politics of Islamic Law compares India, Malaya and Egypt while tracing how institutions and political vocabularies were made.
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Abercrombie: motive, knowledge and a headscarf
A hiring decision in 2015 exposed a distinction between knowing that accommodation is required and acting to avoid it.
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Achbita and Bougnaoui: two questions behind one headline
The paired 2017 decisions are easier to understand when an internal neutrality rule is separated from a customer’s objection.
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WABE and Müller: the need behind a neutrality policy
The 2021 workplace cases put an employer’s asserted need for neutrality into the justification analysis.
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Eweida: four applications, four factual settings
The 2013 Strasbourg judgment shows why a case about religious manifestation should not be reduced to the experience of its first named applicant.
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