Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for the inaugural event of our Rule of Law in Autocracy: The Legal Dimension of Russian Politics speaker series, a presentation by Lauren A. McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst). This event is supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. In Russia, as elsewhere,…
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Understanding our Sephardic Laws and Traditions with Hakham Rabbi Elie Abadie, MD Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D., comes from a long and distinguished rabbinical lineage dating back to fifteenth century Spain and Provence. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he grew-up in Mexico City before settling in the United States. Following in the footsteps of the great Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides (the…
Judith Surkis, in conversation with Stephanie McCurry, Karuna Mantena, and Emmanuelle Saada, moderated by Camille Robcis To RSVP, please click here. During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French…
WED—February 12—7 PM, free RSVP In tonight’s event, ASF Visiting Lecturer Tom Syring will discuss the unprecedented rise of people who have been forcefully displaced and the challenges posed by these patterns, as well as the complex issues behind responses by states and regional organizations in the Americas and Europe. In the past five years, the world has witnessed an…