A Geo-Legal Approach to the English Sharia Courts: Cases and Conflicts

A Geo-Legal Approach to the English Sharia Courts: Cases and Conflicts adopts a new methodological perspective that combines Comparative Law with Geopolitics to understand the phenomenon of the English ’sharia courts’. This term is used as a geopolitical representation of specific Islamic ADR institutions. The geo-legal analysis illustrates the competition of the legal systems involved and brings you in the middle of the related conflict, where (official and unofficial) legal rules are used by various actors to defend their ideas of Law and implement their strategies. Accordingly, the geo-legal operational analysis helps assess the possible changes occurring in the relationship between the legal systems and their substratum of values.

Funding for the research associated with this book was provided by the University of Campania ＂Luigi Vanvitelli＂ - Dept. of Political Science and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research through the National Project (PRIN 2017 n. 20174EH2MR) on ＂International Migrations, State, Sovereignty, Human Rights: open legal issues＂ directed by Prof. Angela Di Stasi and Prof. Ida Caracciolo.

Anna Marotta, double Ph.D. (2017), University ’Luigi Vanvitelli’, University Paris 8, is research fellow at the Vanvitelli University. She has authored publications on Islamic family law in England and Europe and has collaborated on the Italian translation of the book Géopolitique: Méthodes et Concepts (Barbara Loyer, Arman Colin, 2019).