Round Table Discussion on “WOMEN’S RIGHTS UNDER SHARI’AH LAW”, with ​Special Guest and Resource Person, Dr. Azizah al-Hibri, Founder, KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, Saturday, March 10, 2018, (1:00PM to 5:00PM), 5th floor Meeting Room, Henry Sy, Sr. Hall, UP-BGC, Taguig City

The UP Law Center in partnership with the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) held the second Round Table Discussion of the Law and Religion Series with timely focus on women’s rights, Shari’ah, and Islamic jurisprudence. The Law and Religion RTD Series is envisioned to promote intellectual discourse among and between lawyers and legal scholars on issues that interface religion and the legal system.

Guest speaker and resource person, Dr. Azizah Y. al-Hibri, the first Muslim woman law professor in the United States and the founder of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. Her insightful researches and analyses have been published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Harvard International Review, and Fordham International Law Journal, to name a few. Dr. al-Hibri is currently a professor emerita at the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, Virginia. She shared her perspectives on marriage, remedies for women in divorce cases, successional rights for wives and daughters.