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Members of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

Academic Staff

Mashood Baderin
Professor Mashood Baderin

Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States.

His Honour Judge Eugene Cotran
Chair of CIMEL Advisory Council
Staff Silhouette

African law; Middle Eastern law; immigration law; public and private international law

Ian D Edge
Co-Director, Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
Ian Edge

On leave in Term 2 2010
Islamic law; the general law of Egypt and the Gulf; commercial law in the Middle East; conflict of laws and international transactions.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4665
  • Email: ie1@soas.ac.uk
  • Room: 235
  • On Sabbatical:Term 2, early 2010
Nicholas H D Foster
Nick Foster

Comparative commercial and comparative corporate law, with special reference to Islamic law and the laws of the Middle East, in particular the UAE; Islamic Finance.

Doreen Hinchcliffe
Staff Silhouette

Islamic law

  • Tel: 020 7898 4402
Martin W Lau
Staff Silhouette

Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental law, Islamic law

Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Research Associate
Staff Silhouette
Lynn Welchman
Staff Silhouette

On leave in Terms 1 & 3, 2009/10
Palestine and international humanitarian law; laws of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law, human rights, gender and law.

  • Tel: 020 7898 4672
  • Email: lw10@soas.ac.uk
  • Office Hours: Thurs 12:30 - 2:30
  • On Sabbatical:On leave Terms 1 & 3 2009-10