BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241204T0155Z-1733277338.9413-EO-680288-1@10.73.8.183 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260521T075121Z CREATED:20241203T201219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T201219Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241210T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241210T133000 SUMMARY: ILSS: Bahman Khodadadi\, On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of R eligion and Punishment in Iran DESCRIPTION: Dr. Bahman Khodadadi (Harvard Law School) will present On Theo cratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran (Oxford Un iversity Press\, 2024). This talk explores the roots and structures of the criminal law system of the world’s most prominent constitutional theocracy\ , the Shīʿī theocracy. While discussing the processes of de-westernization\ , which occurred in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dr. Bahman Khodadadi (Harvard Law School) will present On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishmen t in Iran (Oxford University Press\, 2024). This talk explores the roots an d structures of the criminal law system of the world's most prominent const itutional theocracy\, the Shīʿī theocracy. While discussing the processes o f de-westernization\, which occurred in the wake of the Islamic Revolution\ , this work examines how the Islamic conception of civil order and polity h as been established within the legal and theological framework of the Irani an Constitution. The presentation offers a 'rational reconstruction' of the theocratic criminal law and offers a critical analysis of the way criminal law functions as the centerpiece of this mode of theocratic domination. It illuminates how this revelation-based\, punitive ideology functions\, how the current Islamic Penal Code mirrors prevailing Shīʿī jurisprudence. It a lso explores the jurisprudential principles and dynamic power of Shīʿī Isla m not only as a driving force behind political and social change but as a f orce that has been capable of forging a whole theocratic legal system.

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