Intisar Rabb

Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility; the significance of act, intent, causation, and result;…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

Students will do 4 short response papers critiquing work-in-progress to be presented by leading comparative law scholars.
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Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility;…

Intisar A. Rabb, Legal Canons—In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons, 1265–1519, 66 Vill. L.

Intisar Rabb & Bilal Orfali, Islamic Law in Literature: The Pull of Procedure in Tanūkhī’s “al-Faraj baʿda l-shidda”, in Tradition and Reception in Arabic Literature.

Intisar Rabb, Methods and Meaning in Islamic Law, 2 J. Islamic L. 166 (2021).

Intisar Rabb, Simplicity, Creativity, Lucidity as “Method” in the Study of Islamic History: An Interview with Michael Cook, Islamic L. Blog (Jan. 26, 2021).

Intisar Rabb, Islamic Legal Canons as Memes, 2 J. Islamic L. 258 (2021).

Intisar A. Rabb, Foreword to the Symposium on Brunei’s New Islamic Criminal Code, 1 J. Islamic L. 146 (2020).

Intisar Rabb, Interpreting Islamic Law Through Legal Canons, in Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law 221 (Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ahmad Atif Ahmad & Said Fares…

Abigail Krasner Balbale, Hossein Modarressi & Intisar Rabb, Introduction, in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts xi (Intisar A. Rabb & Abigail Krasner Balbale…

Intisar Rabb, Conscience Claims in Islamic Law: A Case Study, in Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground 183 (William N. Eskridge…

Intisar Rabb, The Appellate Rule of Lenity, 131 Harv. L. Rev. F. 179 (2018) (Response to Abbe R. Gluck & Richard A. Posner, Statutory Interpretation…

Intisar A. Rabb & Sharon Tai, Digital Islamic Law: Purpose and Prospects, 50 Int’l J. Middle E. Stud. 113 (2018).

Intisar A. Rabb, The Curious Case of Bughaybigha, 661–883: Land and Leadership in Early Islamic Societies, in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts 23…

Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts (Intisar A. Rabb & Abigail Krasner Balbale eds., Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Nov. 2017).

Intisar A. Rabb, Confession, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas & Everett Rowson eds., Brill 2017).

Intisar A. Rabb, Marriage: Islamic, in Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Josef Meri ed., Routledge 2005).

Intisar A. Rabb, Administrative Decrees of the Political Authorities (Qanun): The Mamluk Period, in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History v. 1, at 33 (Stanley…

Intisar A. Rabb, Fiqh [Islamic Law Doctrine], in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World 2, at 255 (John Esposito ed., 2009).

Intisar A. Rabb, Ijtihad [Islamic Jurisprudence], in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World v. 2, at 522 (John Esposito ed., 2009).

Intisar A. Rabb, Law: Civil Law, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World v. 3, at 410 (John Esposito ed., 2009).

Intisar A. Rabb, Law: Courts, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World v. 3, at 413 (John Esposito ed., 2009).

Intisar A. Rabb, Internal Reform of Islamic Family Law Through Evolving Standards of Religion, JOTWELL (Sept. 13, 2013)(reviewing John Hursh, Advancing Women’s Rights Through Islamic…

Intisar A. Rabb, Negotiating Speech in Islamic Law and Politics: Flipped Traditions of Expression, in Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law 144 (Anver M.

Intisar A. Rabb, Governance (al-Siyāsa al-Sharʿiyya), in in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought 197 (Gerhard Böwering et al. eds., 2013).

Intisar A. Rabb, Police, in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought 427 (Gerhard Böwering et al. eds., 2013).

Intisar A. Rabb, Book Review, 27 Yale J. Int’l L. 233 (2002) (reviewing Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Isfahan Merali & Valerie…

Intisar A. Rabb, Book Review, 30 Yale J. Int’l L. 343 (2005) (reviewing Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence (Muḥammad Bāqir aṣ-Ṣadr auth., Roy Mottahedeh trans., 2003)).

Intisar A. Rabb, Non-Canonical Readings of the Qurʾān: Recognition & Authenticity, 8 J. Qurʾānic Stud. 84 (2006).

Intisar A. Rabb, Islamic Legal Maxims as Substantive Canons of Construction: Hudūd-Avoidance in Cases of Doubt, 17 J. Islamic L. & Soc. 63 (2010).

Intisar A. Rabb, The Islamic Rule of Lenity, 44 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 1299 (2011).

Intisar A. Rabb, Islamic Legal Minimalism: Legal Maxims and Lawmaking When Jurists Disappear, in Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought 145 (Michael Cook et…

Intisar A. Rabb, We the Jurists’: Islamic Constitutionalism in Iraq, 10 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 527 (2008).

Intisar A. Rabb, The Least Religious Branch? The New Islamic Constitutionalism after the Arab Spring, 17 UCLA J. Int’l L. & Foreign Aff. 75 (2013).

Intisar A. Rabb, “Reasonable Doubt” in Islamic Law, 40 Yale J. Int’l L. 41 (2015).

Intisar A. Rabb, Against Kadijustiz: On the Negative Citation of Foreign Law, 48 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 343 (2015).

Intisar A. Rabb, Society and Propriety: The Cultural Construction of Defamation and Blasphemy as Crimes in Islamic Law, in Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A…

Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi (Intisar A. Rabb, Michael Cook, Najam Haider & Asma Sayeed eds.,…

Intisar A. Rabb, Doubt in Islamic Law: A History of Legal Maxims, Interpretation, and Islamic Criminal Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).