Law in Societies Cluster Lecture: Is There Such Thing as Islamic Law?

Baudouin Dupret is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is also a lecturer in Islamic law at the University of Louvain.

In his work, Professor Dupret combines approaches from Law, Islamic Studies, and Anthropology to study how law functions in practice within Muslim environments. Over the course of his career, he has spent many years in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco.

His most recent book, Positive Law from the Muslim World (2021, CUP), explores the extent to which the concept of law can be expanded beyond the context of positive state law.