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| Harvard University’s Law Review publication elects its first Muslim, Egyptian-American president | |
| 2021-02-07 | |
| [AlAhram] The Harvard Law Review, one of the most prestigious US law journals, is an entirely student-run publication with the largest circulation of any law journal in the world Harvard University’s affiliate Law Review has elected Egyptian-American Hassaan Shahawy as its 135th President, Harvard Law Today said in a statement on Friday. Meeting the same low bar as when Baracky Obama was elected President in 1990 Born in Los Angeles to an Egyptian Moslem family, Shahawy, 26, is believed to be Harvard Law Review’s first Moslem president in its 134-year history. The Harvard Law Review, one of the most prestigious US law journals, is an entirely student-run publication with the largest circulation of any law journal in the world. It is published monthly from November through June and was founded in 1887 by future Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Shahawy told Rooters that he hoped his election represented "legal academia’s growing recognition of the importance of diversity, and perhaps its growing respect for other legal traditions." English Common Law, as you will no doubt have been taught at Harvard Law, Mr. Shahawy, has been developing since the Dark Ages. American Common Law is built on the base of English Common Law as it existed at the time of our Revolution, but has since developed in a direction more suited to our national ethos and particular experiences. Some other legal traditions cannot possibly suit us as well, especially Sharia Law because of its emphasis on inequality under the law for different groups. You are here because American Common Law has worked well for your family, too. According to Harvard Law Today, Shahawy graduated from Harvard College in 2016 with an A.B. in History and Near Eastern Studies. He then attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to pursue a doctorate in Oriental Studies, and alongside that studied Islamic law traditionally both in the UK and in the Moslem world.Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Pakistan? Turkey? None have legal systems worth respecting. He has also been involved in direct services work with refugee populations and incarcerated people."Coming from a community routinely demonised in American public discourse, I hope this represents some progress, even if small and symbolic," Rooters quoted Shahawy as saying. Shahawy’s predecessor Michaeljit Sandhu hailed him in statements to the Harvard Law Today in which he described the Egyptian-American as "astoundingly smart and unceasingly modest". "His collaborative approach to leadership, deep commitment to engagement across difference, and excellent judgment will serve the Review extremely well during this extraordinary time. I am so excited to see what he and all the editors in Volume 135 do next," said Sandhu.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 Next up: first ped0phile editor |
| Posted by: Dino Chomort3729 2021-02-07 17:43 |
| #8 Fine, but he's not Harvard's first Native American |
| Posted by: Liz Warren 2021-02-07 17:26 |
| #7 Thought Harvard already did this. O.K. Kenyan; not Egyptian. Picky, picky. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-02-07 16:38 |
| #6 If they want to know how to work around the Islamic proscription of interest on loans, they should just look to Saudi Arabia. Ever since the oil money started flowing in in earnest, the kingdom, its central bank (SAMA), and almost all the banks have been on an interest-bearing basis. I don't know what contortions they went through, but they did justify it. |
| Posted by: Tom 2021-02-07 14:27 |
| #5 I don't know the specifics of what Shahawy is studying but among the frontiers of Islamic Law these days are: - work around to avoid the discrimination against women in testimony, divorce and inheritance - work around to allow interest based financing there are a number of 'progressive muslims' working on these while, of course, a lot of them work on the killing infidel rules and stuff like that |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-02-07 09:20 |
| #4 Hassaan Shahawy was student editor of SHARIAsource I’ll move the article from Non-WoT to WoT Background. Thank you, Dron66046. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-07 07:42 |
| #3 And Janet Yellen is the first female Secretary of the Treasury...../sarc |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-02-07 05:09 |
| #2 Hassaan Shahawy was student editor of SHARIAsource, the Harvard programme in Islamic law. You read that right. Goddamn, it was better off just producing Psychology hacks and inhuman lawyers and managers. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-02-07 05:01 |
| #1 The brand steadily declines? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-02-07 01:36 |