Arif’s research and teaching interests are in the fields of law and religion, Muslim legal traditions, comparative law, and legal and political theory. He has held visiting appointments at law schools in the US, Italy, and Hong Kong, as well as at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. He is the author of Islam, Law and the Modern State (2019) and has published widely, including in the American Journal of Comparative Law and the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. Currently, he serves as joint Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law.
Arif’s initial degrees were from McGill University (BA) and the University of Toronto (LLB), and he was called to the Bar of British Columbia. He then earned an LLM degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and completed his PhD at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL).
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Book Chapters
Arif A. Jamal, 'Freedom of religion in Asia' in Anne Fornerod (ed), La liberté de religion en question(s) (Larcier 2022) 59
Arif A Jamal, 'Making Islamic Penal Clauses: Translation, Transformation and Transmogrification' in Thio Li-ann and Jaclyn L Neo (eds), Religious Offences in Common Law Asia: Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice (Hart Publishing 2021) 103
Jaclyn L. Neo and Arif A. Jamal, 'Freedom of Religion: Asian Perspectives' in Silvio Ferrari, Mark Hill QC, Arif A Jamal and Rossella Bottoni (eds), Routledge Handbook of Freedom of Religion or Belief (Routledge International Handbooks 2020) 175
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