The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (JINEL) is published once a year. As the first law school journal in the West dealing with this topic, JINEL’s goal is to emphasize and critically analyze all legal issues–social, political, civil, historical, economic, and commercial–that are of particular relevance to Muslims and Near Easterners in both Muslim and non-Muslim societies. Thus we will:
Because the Near East is not a static geographical region, JINEL has adopted the broad policy of looking at each submission on a case-by-case basis and within the context of history to determine its relevance.
Areas of traditional study (e.g., the Arabian Peninsula, the Iranian Plateau) will of course be included, yet we will not overlook areas of study that have had a significant impact on, and been acculturated in one way or another into the region (e.g., North Africa and Central and South Asia).
View JINEL’s current issue: Volume 14 (2015)
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Faculty Advisors
Advisory Board
M. Cherif Bassiouni
DePaul University College of Law
Ahmad Dallal
American University of Beirut
Mohammad Fadel
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Reed College
Wael B. Hallaq
Columbia University
Ann E. Mayer
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
John Makdisi
St. Thomas University School of Law
Hossein Modarressi
Princeton University
Ebrahim Moosa
Duke University
Roy P. Mottahedeh
Harvard University
Asma Sayeed
University of California, Los Angeles
Frank Vogel
Harvard Law School
Staff Members:
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Shahram Samie
Sireen Sawaf
Chief Articles Editor
Yasmin Elhady
Chief Managing Editor
Stephen Araiza
Chief Productions Editor
Aziz Ahmad
Chief Comments Editor
Ali Tehrani
Business Manager
Azil Virji
Articles Editors
Aziz Ahmad
Josh Markovitz
Fawad Shaiq
Comments Editor
Michael Sier
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Justin Smith
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