CMRB Seminars in November

"Blaming the victims - Sarkozy and the plight of the Roma".

Speaker: Dr Jim Wolfreys, Kings College London.

Wednesday 17 November:2-5pm (Room TBC)

“Muslim Women and Marriage in Trans-jurisdictional Contexts”

Wednesday 24 November: 2-5pm in room EB.G.10

Speaker: Dr Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London

How do immigration officials and judges manage when judging the validity of acts of marriage solemnisation, which take place on transjurisdictional terms? How do we explain their responses? These are some questions raised by this paper, which presents evidence gleaned from the writer’s

own work as an ‘expert’ witness in immigration cases. Two case studies have been selected on the basis that the chief issue in contestation is the validity of a trans-jurisdictional marriage among South Asian Muslims, and therefore raise the issue of whether the marriages are valid according

to Muslim law. The paper also raises some questions for future research, given that we know little as yet about how recognition of minority transjurisdictional marriages takes place across European legal systems and, in particular, the role of experts who get involved in the legal processes in which such marriages are contested.

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