BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250626T090125EDT-6463FxLfVR@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250626T130125Z DESCRIPTION:The 51łÔąĎÍřArbitration Society and McGill’s Institute of Compar ative Law invite you to a panel on religious arbitration. We will host Rab bi Michael Whitman\, expert on Talmudic Law\, and Professor Ahmed Ibrahim\ , expert on Islamic Law\, to discuss the controversial issues on the inter section between mainstream legal culture and religion in the arbitral cont ext. Professor Natasha Bakht from the University of Ottawa\, expert in bo th religious arbitration and family law\, will moderate the event and brin g other perspectives\, particularly from Ontario\, where the debate began. Reception: 17:00-18:00\, Stephen Scott Room (room 16)\, Old Chancellor D ay HallPanel: 18:30-20:00\, Moot Court (room 100)\, New Chancellor Day Hal l Food will be served. Please indicate any dietary restrictions. We will be ordering kosher and halal food. RSVP to mcgill [at] arbitrationsociety .ca Accreditation is pending for 1.5 hours of continuing legal education for members of the Quebec Bar. About the panelists and moderator Rabbi M ichael Whitman Rabbi Michael Whitman is the spiritual leader of the ADATH (Adath Israel Poale Zedek Anshei Ozeroff Synagogue) in Hampstead\, Quebec . He is also a Sessional Lecturer at 51łÔąĎÍř Faculty of Law. Rab bi Whitman serves on the boards of Auberge Shalom…pour femmes\, Kollel Tor ah Mitzion of Montreal\, Cote St. Luc / Hampstead / Snowdon Eruv\, Westmou nt Eruv\, Rabbinical Council Conversion Program\, and (former Executive Bo ard Member) Rabbinical Council of America. He is past president of the Rab binical Council of Montreal and past president of the Greater Montreal Boa rd of Rabbis. Rabbi Whitman served for fourteen years as the spiritual le ader of Young Israel of New Haven\, Connecticut\, USA. During that time\, he worked at Yale University Hillel and taught at Yale University Law Scho ol. Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim Professor Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim began his appointm ent at the Institute of Islamic Studies on August 1\, 2012\, following his appointment as Fellow in Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Eur ope (EUME) program at the Forum Transregionale Studien of the Wissenschaft skolleg in Berlin\, Germany in 2011-2012. He received his PhD in Islamic l aw from Georgetown University\, Washington D.C. (2011). His dissertation\, entitled “School Boundaries and Social Utility in Islamic Law: The Theory and Practice of TalfÄ«q and TatabbuĘż al-Rukhaṣ in Egypt”\, traces the prag matic use of Sunni legal pluralism in 20th-century Egypt to developments t hat took place in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods in court practice and leg al theory. His work explores the interaction between legal theory and cou rt practice using both Ottoman archival materials and unpublished legal th eoretical manuscripts. He links shifts in juristic discourse on the issue of pragmatic eclecticism to institutional as well as discursive changes th at took place around the 13th century. He is currently working on a book t hat examines the interaction between court practice and legal theory in Eg ypt with regards to this question of legal pluralism and its implications for legal change. Natasha Bakht Natasha Bakht is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. She served as a law clerk to Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada and was called to th e bar of Ontario in 2003.  Professor Bakht’s research interests are genera lly in the area of law\, culture and minority rights and specifically in t he intersecting area of religious freedom and women’s equality.  She has w ritten extensively on the issue of religious arbitration in family law.  H er latest works are about the rights of niqab-wearing women\; she was rece ntly cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of R v NS.  DTSTART:20130226T220000Z DTEND:20130227T010000Z LOCATION:Stephen Scott seminar room (OCDH 16) and Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:Religious Arbitration: A Measure of Legal Multiculturalism URL:/law/channels/event/religious-arbitration-measure- legal-multiculturalism-224799 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR