Mind the step: Standardizing the Mind, Stepping into Positive Law (Egypt, 1897-1949)

by Baudouin Dupret (National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))

Tuesday 6 Dec 2022, 19:00 → 21:00 Europe/Berlin

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Baudouin Dupret is educated in Law, Islamic Sciences, and Political Sciences. He is Directeur de Recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is also guest lecturer at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and research associate at the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR, Rabat, Morocco). He has published extensively in the field of the sociology and anthropology of law in Middle Eastern and Islamic contexts. He (co-)edited numerous volumes, the two most recent ones being Legal Rules in Practice (with J. Colemans and M. Travers, Routledge, 2020) and State Law and Legal Positivism (with J.L. Halpérin, Brill, 2021). He also authored several books, e.g. What Is the Sharia? (Hurst, 2017) and Positive Law from the Muslim World (Cambridge U.P., 2021). He is currently working on the positivizing process of norms, in and beyond the law, in African Muslim contexts.