after the rule: A SYMPOSIUM ON
ALTERNATIVE TRADITIONS OF LAW, NORMS AND RULES
There’s many a slip
twist the tongue and the lip
CENTRE FOR LAW, ARTS &
HUMANITIES & CENTRE FOR ARAB & ISLAMIC STUDIES
australian National University
21 & 22
SEPTEMBER 2018 | sir roland wilson building | anu
The ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, in
collaboration with the ANU Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, is pleased
to present this symposium exploring comparative, historical, and cultural
dimensions of laws, rules and norms. Scholars from across the disciplines will
be exploring alternative traditions of hermeneutics, with papers drawing on
Islamic, indigenous, gender theory, and critical legal perspectives, as well as
Australia’s own common law tradition. This symposium will suggest new ways of
seeing the relationship between interpretation, law, and justice: other spaces
and cultural practices, other ways of reading and non-reading, other
crystallisations of rules, order and discipline.
After the Rule is interested in traditions that break our comfortable
understanding of law as a formal set of procedures and institutions standing
above the hurly-burly of life. We look to the playing out norms and rules: in
liturgy, in courtroom drama, in religious traditions, in the vocation of the
lawyer or advocate, in gendered characters, and in visual and other forms of
art and narrative. In this context, papers will cover research as diverse as
classical modes of Sharia interpretation, sorcery in PNG, radical figures in
the contemporary graphic novel, comparative constitutionality, and the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
The symposium should be of particular interest to
students and scholars of law, socio-legal studies, and Islamic studies, as well
as the general observer interested in alternative traditions of decision-making
and interpretation.
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