Faculty Presentations

Kristen Stilt, Faculty Director

Academic Year 2019-2020
  • Ethics and Animal Ethnography, workshop hosted by Professors Lori Gruen and Elan Abrell, Wesleyan University (May 7–8, 2020).
  • Halal Animals: Food, Faith, and the Future of Planetary Health, Animal Law and Policy Program Workshop Series, Harvard Law School (April 7, 2020).
  • Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights, Animals and Society Research Initiative Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Victoria Faculty of Law (March 10, 2020).
  • Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights, Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program, Harvard University (March 6, 2020).
  • Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights, Animal Law Society Animal Law Week, Harvard Law School (February 24, 2020).
  • Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: A Discussion with Book Author Charlotte Blattner, Animal Law and Policy Program Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School (November 18, 2019).
  • Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights, Keynote Presentation, European Animal Rights Law Conference, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights (September 14, 2019).
  • Animals and Religion, The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad, India, (July 25, 2019).
Academic Year 2018-2019
  • Foreign Animals in Middle Eastern Markets, Workshop on Animals in the Middle East, University of Vienna (June 27-28, 2019).
  • The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (June 2, 2019).
  • The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal, University of California San Diego (May 7, 2019).
  • The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal, University of Illinois Law School Faculty Workshop (May 2, 2019).
  • Debates about Death, The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia Workshop, Harvard Law School (April 4-5, 2019).
  • Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Texas School of Law (February 21-22, 2019).
  • The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal, Legal Theory Workshop, McGill Law School (February 1, 2019).
  • The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal, Animal Law and Policy Workshop Series, Harvard Law School (November 27, 2018).
  • Halal Animals, Animal Grantmakers Conference, Harvard Law School (October 17, 2018).
  • The End of the Ritual Bubble, Animal Law and Policy Workshop Series, Harvard Law School (October 2, 2018).

Salma Waheedi, Executive Director

Academic Year 2024-2025
  • Islamic Shari’a and the Civil State: Constructing Checks and Balances, Conference on Ethical Foundations of Constitutional Governance, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar (May 5, 2025).
  • Gender Justice in International Law Frameworks, Harvard Law School (Mar. 27, 2025).
  • Israel/Palestine in International Law, Panelist, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, Harvard Law School (March 12, 2025).
  • International Advocacy and Litigation for Justice: Possibilities, Challenges, and Impact, workshop hosted by Professor Zeina Jallad, American University of Beirut (November 28, 2024).
  • Islamic Feminism: Negotiating Tradition and Social Change, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Workshop, Harvard Law School (October 2, 2024).
  • The International Criminal Court and the War in Gaza, Panelist, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, Harvard Law School (September 24, 2024).
  • Nationalism, the State, and Arab Women’s Movements, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Workshop, Harvard Law School (September 18, 2024).
Academic Year 2023-2024
  • Arab Women: Achievements, Aspirations, and Challenges, Panelist, Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School (April 16, 2024).
  • The Role of International Courts in the Gaza Conflict, Panelist,  Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (March 28, 2024).
  • Understanding Refugee Protection: The Roles of UNHCR, UNRWA, and International Law, Harvard Divinity School (February 29, 2024).
  • Human Rights Litigation and Social Justice Lawyering in the Middle East, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Workshop (February 27, 2024).
  •  International Courts and Global Justice in Theory and Practice, Harvard Divinity School (February 15, 2024).
  • Contesting Authority: Islamic Feminism and Family Law Reform, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Workshop, Harvard Law School (September 19, 2023).
Academic Year 2022-2023
  • Workshop on Gender, Law, and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Co-convener, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School (May 3, 2023).
  • Islamic Feminism and Muslim Women’s Rights Advocacy in the Middle East, Harvard Law School (February 14, 2023).
  • The Human Rights Landscape in the MENA Region: Frameworks, Actors, and Systemic Challenges, Harvard Law School (January 31, 2023).
  • Legal Agency and Women’s Rights in Islamic Marriage Contracts, Marriage Rights Clinic, University College Lahore, Pakistan (August 11, 2022).
Academic Year 2021-2022
  • Islamic Law, Gender, and Family Law Reform, Harvard Law School (April 15, 2022).
  • Islamic Feminism: Transforming Shari’a Discourses, Harvard Law School (February 22, 2022).

  • Violence Against Women: Prohibited by Shari’a, Allowed by Jurisprudence, Panelist, Jordanian National Commission for Women, Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance, and Musawah (December 7, 2021).

  • Incorporating Cultural Humility: Cultivating Context and Respect, Panelist, Annual Conference of the Harvard Teaching and Learning Initiative, Harvard University (September 24, 2021).

Academic Year 2020-2021
  • Gender-Based Violence in the Laws and Policies of Arab States, Webinar, Musawah: A Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (May 27, 2021).
  • Challenges of Muslim Family Law Reform, Webinar, Musawah Muslim Family Law Series (Apr. 6, 2021)
  •  Dismantling the Master’s House: Building Knowledge for Muslim Family Law Reform, Musawah Global Conference on Muslim Family Law Reform (November 24, 2020).
  •  Islamic Feminism and Women’s Rights Advocacy in the Muslim World, Webinar, Harvard Law School (October 6, 2020).
  • Negotiating Shari’a and Women’s Rights Activism: Dilemmas and Strategies, Webinar, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (July 2, 2020).
Academic year 2018-2019
  • Crimes of Speech: Freedom of Expression in the Middle East, Panelist, Harvard Law School (April 25, 2019).
  • Islamic Feminism and the Quest for Gender Equality, Harvard Law School (April 22, 2019).
  • Bureaucratizing Gender, Sexuality, and Conversation, The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia Workshop, Harvard Law School (April 4-5, 2019).
  • The Judge – Film Screening and Discussion of Arab Women in the Judiciary, Panelist, Boston Center for Arabic Culture (March 30, 2019).
  • International Treaties, Islamic Law, and Muslim Women Rights Advocates’ Search for Common Grounds, Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (March 8, 2019).
  • Islamic Law and Models of Judicial Review, Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (February 1, 2019).
  • Constitutional Design and Judicial Independence in Arab Gulf Countries, Conference on Constitutional Development in Arab Gulf Cooperation Council States, New York University — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (November 28, 2018).
  • Islamic Law in the Constitutional Order of Arab States, Workshop on the Role of Religious Law in the Constitutional State, Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, Milano, Italy (November 6, 2018).
  • The Judge – Film Screening and Discussion of Arab Women in the Judiciary, Panelist, Harvard Law School (October 22, 2018).
  • Disrupting Assumptions: Veil, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Islam, Harvard Law School (September 17, 2018).