Law & Society in the Muslim World

📢 Now Accepting Applications: The Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Fellowship at @Harvard_Law. This is an opportunity for legal scholars & practitioners of Sri Lankan background working on human rights in Sri Lanka & South Asia. To find out more and apply: plsmw.law.harvard.edu/tiruchelvam-fe…

We are currently accepting submissions for our 2025 writing prize! @Harvard_Law students may submit academic papers on topics of law and society or law and social change in a Muslim majority or minority context for consideration: hls.harvard.edu/academics/fell…

Syria After Assad: Exploring Avenues of Accountability - Join us Thursday Feb. 6 @ 12:30 pm for a conversation with Lina Pimentel Biscaia, international criminal law expert and @Harvard_Law Wasserstein Fellow. For more info: plsmw.law.harvard.edu/event/syria-af…

Monday, Feb. 3: Join us for a discussion of the latest developments in Western Sahara and the Sahrawi people's struggle for self-determination and independence. Hosted with @HumanRightsHLS plsmw.law.harvard.edu/event/western-…

#RECORDING: Accountability, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka - watch our panel discussion @Harvard_Law with @ThyagiR and Kate Cronin-Furman youtube.com/watch?v=SvXonN… #srilankaelections #SriLanka @HumanRightsHLS

Disability Inclusion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Join us for a a conversation with Sara Minkara (HKS MPP '14), the U.S. Department of State's Special Advisor on International Disability Rights. Nov. 25 @ 12:20 pm at @Harvard_Law WCC 1015 hpod.law.harvard.edu/events/event/i…

This #InternationalStudentsDay, we celebrate those who have joined and enriched the Harvard Law School community from around the globe!

Monday, 11/18 at 12:15 pm: Join us at @Harvard_Law for a discussion with Hiba Thobani (LLM '19) and @KarinaClough on the legal frameworks that perpetuate statelessness & the work being done to end statelessness in the U.S. and Pakistan plsmw.law.harvard.edu/event/hidden-i…

Congratulations to the Human Rights Program for a successful & inspiring 40th anniversary celebration! Read the remarks of our Faculty Director Kristen Stilt on rights of nature during panel discussion: "Investing in a Just Future: (Re)Imagining the Field" hls.harvard.edu/today/hrp-at-4…

Last week, 1 mo. until #COP29, ex-HR ombuds @atatoyan & UNHR's @mrtommybecker @Anoush_B presented at Harvard & Columbia abt Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing of 100k+ Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. COP29 shouldn't greenwash Azerbaijan’s brutal human rights & environmental record.

📢📢 Join us Monday 10/21 for the panel discussion: "One Year Post Exodus: Looking toward accountability and justice for the Armenians ethnically cleansed from Nagorno-Karabakh" #Armenia Featuring @atatoyan @Anoush_B & @mrtommybecker. 12:15-1:15 pm in WCC 2012 at @Harvard_Law

Thursday, Oct. 10: Join us for the lunch discussion "International Actors and Rule of Law Reform in the Global South: Lessons from Ethiopia" at 12:15pm in WCC 3007 with panelists @AbduletifK, Ada Ordor, Abadir M. Ibrahim and moderator Salma Waheedi. plsmw.law.harvard.edu/event/internat…

This Thursday 10/3: Join us for lunch and a discussion with Niku Jafarnia (HLS/HKS '20) on the use of starvation as a weapon of war in the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen: plsmw.law.harvard.edu/event/starvati… in collaboration with @HLS_Advocates and MENALSA at @Harvard_Law

Happening tomorrow!

Tuesday, Oct 1: Join us for a book talk with Dr. @elhamfakhro, HLS LLM '10, to discuss her groundbreaking book "The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization." plsmw.law.harvard.edu/event/abraham-… in collaboration w/@HumanRightsHLS @HLS_Advocates & HLS MENALSA

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OCT 17: Join our Program Faculty Director Kristen Stilt and Executive Director Salma Waheedi as part of the 40th Anniversary Symposium of the Human Rights Program at @Harvard_Law, "Envisioning a Future for Human Rights." hrp.law.harvard.edu/hrp-event/40th… @HumanRightsHLS