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School of Law Research Newsletter Issue 16 SCHOOL OF LAW RESEARCH Issue Newsletter 16 December - June 2019 Editor | Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack Commemorating the work and achievements of Professor Werner Menski are Professor Lynn Welchman, Dr Samia Bano, Dr Alexander Fischer, Dr Latif Tas, Dr Prakash Shah, Dr Sonia Khan and other SOAS collaborators. Contents Editor’s Remarks his 16th edition of the research newsletter enrich the production of knowledge by forcing Publications 2-3 focuses on the numerous research- us to view issues from divergent, often first-hand Conferences, Workshops related activities that SOAS researchers perspectives. I’m convinced that these activities & Presentations 4-5 undertakeT but which often go without much are the means by which SOAS researchers can Research-Related acknowledgement. These time-intensive and do distinguish themselves as a truly global - Research Centre Activities activities are comprised of presentations, law school capable of producing impactful - Research Snapshots 6-8 dialogues, bridge-building and knowledge research. And so, I call on all of you to join with LEDC’s Twelfth Annual Public exchange, which are necessary preludes to the me in celebrating SOAS’s culture of research Evening Seminar Series 9 production of more formal outputs such as collaboration and knowledge dissemination Working with Bahir Dar articles, chapters in an edited volume or edited activities, many of which I have not been able to University’s School of volumes. Arguably, the type of research that bring to light in this edition. Law PhD Programme 10-11 is conducted at SOAS is particularly reliant on Finally, I’d like to highlight the important Staff Update these activities because the knowledge we seek to contributions that our emeritus professors, Emeritus Professor generate and disseminate resides in people. We Werner Menski and Michael Palmer, make to Michael Palmer 12 cannot rely on libraries and online data alone if the SOAS School of Law. Despite their apparent Researcher Introduction we hope to truly penetrate the research problems retirement, their knowledge production Dr Olivia Lwabukuna 13 for which we seek to find solutions. And yet, proceeds full steam ahead, generating on the ground collaboration is also important considerable influence and prestige for our law Still Flying Kites for SOAS 14-16 because it provides diverse perspectives that school. We owe them our gratitude. 1 Publications Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Ms Sara Bertotti Dr Emilia Omneya ‘Separate or Inseparable? How discourse Emilia Onyema, “African Participation in the ICSID interpreting law and politics as separable categories System: Appointment and Disqualification of shaped the formation of the UN Human Rights Arbitrators”, ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Council’s Universal Periodic Review’, (2019) Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2019) 1. The International Journal of Human Rights. Dr Emilia Onyema, “Reimagining the Framework for resolving Intra-African Commercial Disputes in the Context of the African Continental Free Professor Philippe Cullet Trade Area Agreement”, World Trade Review (Forthcoming, 2019) 1. ‘Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation’ (2018) 2/3 Indian Law Review 263. Dr Melek Saral (EU Marie-Sklodowska Currie Fellow) Dr Makeen Makeen ‘The Protection of Human Rights in Transitional Tunisia. Willingness, Consensus and Capacity ‘Evaluation of Moral Rights Protection in Egypt’ Building’ (Forthcoming, 2019) Muslim World (2019) 14 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Journal of Human Rights. Practice 278. Emeritus Professor Werner Menski Edited Volumes ‘Ethical States and Responsible Governance in the Global Age of Plural Laws’, 1 (2019) GNLU Journal Professor Philippe Cullet of Law and Society 29. Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar & Sujith Koonan Werner Menski and Ousman Noor, ‘Author and (eds), Right to Sanitation in India – Critical Subject Index to IANL Vol 32 (2018)’, 33(1) (2019) Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019). Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law 75. Dr Lutz Oette Dr Lutz Oette Lutz Oette and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker Micha Wiebusch, Chika Charles Aniekwe, Lutz (eds), Constitution-Making and Human Rights in Oette, Stef Vandeginste, ‘The African Charter the Sudans (Routledge, 2019). on Democracy, Elections and Governance: Past, Present and Future’ 63 Supplement S1 (2019) Micha Wiebusch, Chika Charles Aniekwe, Lutz Journal of African Law 9. Oette, Stef Vandeginste (eds.), ‘The African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance at 10’ 63 (2019) Journal of African Law Supplement S1. 2 SCHOOL OF LAW RESEARCH NEWSLETTER | Issue 16 Emeritus Professor Michael Palmer ‘Hindu Law in Modern Times. How Hindu Law Continues in Modern India’ in Torkel Brekke Hualing Fu, Michael Palmer (ed.) The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern and Xianchu Zhang (eds.), Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 2019). Transparency Challenges Facing China (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2019). Dr Lutz Oette ‘Power, Conflict and Human Rights in Sudan’ in Lutz Oette and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker (eds.) Constitution-Making and Human Rights in the Sudans (Routledge, 2018). Chapters in Edited Volumes Lutz Oette, Noha Ibrahim Abdelgabar and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, ‘Constitutional Dimensions of Minority Rights and the Rights of Dr Samia Bano Peoples in the Sudans’ in Lutz Oette and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker (eds.) Constitution-Making ‘The Usefulness of the Parity Governance Model in and Human Rights in the Sudans (Routledge, 2018). Muslim Family Law Debates’ in Kathryn O’Sullivan (ed.), Minority Religions under Irish Law: Islam in National and International Context (Brill 2019). Media Professor Philippe Cullet Professor Philippe Cullet ‘Governing Groundwater – Fostering Participatory ‘Water: Our Common Heritage’ Shillong Times (23 and Aquifer-Based Regulation’, in Amarjit March 2019) 6. Singh, Dipankar Saha & Avinash C Tyagi (eds.) Water Governance: Challenges and Prospects ‘Meghalaya: National Politics in a Small, Tribal, (Springer, 2019). North-East State’ South Asia Notes – SOAS South Asia Institute (23 April 2019). ‘The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges’, in Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar & Sujith Koonan (eds.) Right to Sanitation in India – Critical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019). Dr Lutz Oette Lutz Oette and Suliman Baldo, ‘Sudan: A Genuine, Peaceful People’s Revolution in the Making’, Emeritus Professor Werner Menski African Arguments (12 February 2019). Werner Menski and Zoe Headley, ‘Hindu Law: The ‘The Causes of Protests in Sudan, the International Legal Other’ in Rossella Bottoni and Silvio Ferrari Criminal Court and the al- Bashir Case’, CNBC (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws Africa (Interview, 25 February 2019). (Routledge, 2019). ‘Sudan: A State of Emergency’, Sudan Tribune (28 Werner Menski and Gopika Solanki, ‘Hindu Law: February 2019). Marriage’ in Rossella Bottoni and Silvio Ferrari ‘Britain’s Flawed Dialogue with Sudan Regime’, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws Guardian (Letters, 10 March 2019). (Routledge, 2019). ‘Sudanese Protests and al-Bashir’s Removal from Werner Menski and Kalindi Kokal, ‘Hindu Law: Power’, France 24, Eye on Africa (Live Interview, Dynamics of Belonging and Status’ in Rossella 11 April 2019). Bottoni and Silvio Ferrari (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws (Routledge, 2019). 3 Conferences, Workshops & Presentations Dr Samia Bano Diversitas 6th General Conference: Law, Roots & Space (Keynote Lecture, Faculty of Law, North- ‘Muslim Women and Gender Segregation Debates West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa and in Britain’, Workshop: Gender Segregation and the Southern African Society for Legal Historians, Deconstruction in the UK (University of Sussex, 22 15 April 2019). January 2019). ‘Decolonising the University: Knowledge, Power and ‘Legal Diversity’, Staff Seminar Series: Centre Dr Emilia Omneya for Global Politics, Economy and Society and the Panel presentation: ‘London as a Dispute Department of Politics and International Relations Resolution Hub for International Parties’, London (Oxford Brookes University, 14 Feb 2019). International Disputes Week (Norton Rose ‘Muslim Marriage and Critical Muslim Feminist Fulbright, 7 May 2019). Approaches’, Conference: Beyond Marriage: ‘SOAS Arbitration in Africa Survey’, African Philosophy, Politics and Law (University of Arbitration Association (AfAA) Arbitration Cambridge, 24-25 May 2019). Inaugural Conference (Kigali, 3 April 2019). ‘Care, Welfare and Protection: Analysing the Keynote Speech: ‘SOAS Arbitration in Africa experiences of British Muslim Children under the Survey 2018’, Fourth Annual Conference on Energy Children’s Act 1989’, Workshop: Minority Families Arbitration and ADR in MENA and Africa Regions and the Law: Interactions of Ethnic, Religious and (CMS Law Offices, London, 8 March 2019). Cultural Minorities with Law and State Institutions (Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of ‘The Attitude of English Courts Towards Law, Spain, 29-31 May 2019). Enforcement of Arbitral Awards under the New York Convention’, Sharm El Sheikh CRCICA conference (Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 9-11 December 2018). Ms Sara Bertotti ‘The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of Nepal: An Dr Lutz Oette Analysis of its Legal Status and Reception in Nepal’s Post-Conflict Legal Order’, Britain-Nepal Academic ‘Editorial Committee & Primary Drafters Meeting on Council 17th Study Days (University of Edinburgh and the Istanbul Protocol’, Physicians for Human Rights,
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