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Sidney Griffith

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The Catholic University of America
Sidney is a professor in the Department of Semitic Languages at the Institute of Christian Oriental Research, The Catholic University of America. His research interests are Arabic Christianity, Syriac monasticism, medieval Christian-Muslim encounters, and ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
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Maayan Davidov

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maayan Davidov teaches at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on parent-child relationships and children's socio-emotional development.

Law and Pluralism

[RG #97] Law and Pluralism

March 1 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Our research group will explore the following topics:

  • The religious aspects of legal systems.
  • Conceptions of secularism, the specificity of Indian secularism, and the extent to which secularism might be considered a Western, Christian doctrine.
  • Global justice, and caution in the attempts to extend the principles of distributive justice to the global sphere.
  • Establishing universal features of criminal law that would be applied in the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals.
  • Issues of political import and relevance to Israeli society.
  • The relations between values and rights in the constitutional context.
  • An analysis of the later drafts of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, drafted over the months April and May of 1948.

 

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Thomas Hunter

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ACICIS
Thomas is affiliated with the Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies, Indonesia. His research interests are: cultural archaeology of Malay-Indonesian archipelago; application of post-colonial and translation theory to the critical study of modern Indonesian theory.
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Uli Wagner

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Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Uli is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. His research interests are: topological and high-dimensional combinatorics, discrete and computational geometry, and computational topology.
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Joseph Patrich

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph is a professor in the Institute of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: Nabatean art and archaeology; archaeology of Israel and of the Middle East in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
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Otto Jastrow

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Tallinn University
Otto Jastrow is a professor of Arabic Studies at Tallinn University. His research interests are Arabic and Neo-Aramaic dialects (including Jewish Arabic dialects), of which he considered to be one of the world's foremost experts.