Léon Buskens
has a chair for Law and Culture in Muslim Societies at Leiden University and is at present the director of nimar, the Dutch institute in Morocco, based in Rabat. He studies law and culture in Muslim societies from an anthropological and historical perspective, with a particular interest for the history of the European understandings of Islamic and customary law. A recent publication is “Dutch Anthropologists in Morocco. From Exoticism to Islam at Home”, Hespéris-Tamuda 55 (2020): 347–390.
Jean-Philippe Dequen
is the Desk Officer for India, Central, South and South East Asia at the Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie of Québec (Canada), as well a research associate at soas, University of London, UK. He has published in the field of the legal history of colonial India, more specifically in relation to Muslim personal law, e.g. “Filiation and Adoption among Muslims in India: The Quagmire of a Religious Minority Law”, Journal of Law and Religion 34/3 (2019): 336–355.
Baudouin Dupret
is Directeur de Recherche at the cnrs, based at the institute Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux (France), and guest lecturer at the University of Louvain (Belgium). He has published extensively in the field of the sociology and anthropology of law in the Muslim world, e.g. Legal Rules in Practice (coedited with J. Colemans and M. Travers, Routledge, 2020) and Positive Law from the Muslim World (Cambridge, 2021).
Jean-Louis Halpérin
Ph.D. (1985), University Paris ii, is currently Professor of Legal History at the Ecole Normale supérieure – Paris Siences Lettres. He has published monographs and many articles on European and Asian legal history, including Five Legal Revolutions since the 17th Century. A Analysis of Global Legal History (Springer, 2014).
Béatrice Jaluzot
is a tenured Associate Professor in Private Law at Lyon Institute for Political Studies and Director of the Lyon Institute for East Asian Studies. She has published extensively in the field of comparative law and Japanese legal history, e.g.
Gianluca Parolin
is a comparative lawyer interested in how a new semiotics of law and governance developed in Egypt in the second quarter of the 19th century. He is Professor of Law at the Aga Khan University in London, where he also leads the Governance Programme. He is the author of Citizenship in the Arab World (Amsterdam University Press, 2009), and is currently working on a new book on the law’s imaginaire in Egyptian television drama.
Avi Rubin
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published articles on various aspects of the socio-legal history of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century. He is the author of Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yildiz Case (Syracuse, NY: 2018); Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity (New York, 2011).
Tzung-Mou Wu
is Associate Research Professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica (Institute of Legal Studies, Taiwanese Academy of Science) based at Taipei (Taiwan). He studies the legal historical dimensions of contemporary political and policy issues, e.g. his chapters in Neil M. Chisholm, ed., “Judicial Reform in Taiwan: Democratization and the Diffusion of Law” (Routledge, 2020), Iiguni Yoshiaki et al., eds., “Titles and Registration System in Land Law: From A Comparative Perspective (in Japanese)” (Nakanishiya, 2018).