Professor Catherine Hezser awarded €700,000 UKRI-AHRC funded UK-German Collaborative Grant for research project on Rabbinic civil law in ancient legal history Professor Catherine Hezser has been awarded a grant for a three-year interdisciplinary collaborative research project on “Rabbinic Civil Law in the Context of Ancient Legal History: A Legal Compendium to the Bavot Tractates of the Talmud Yerushalmi.”
Everjoice Win appointed as Professor of Practice The Centre for Gender Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Everjoice Win as Professor of Practice. Everjoice Win is currently International Director for Programmes and Global Engagement at ActionAid.
New Professors of Practice and Community Fellows to focus on law, the arts, anthropology, finance, politics and music Our latest cohort of Professors of Practice and Community Fellows for 2025 bring their industry experience in law, art, anthropology, sustainable finance, politics and music.
Professor Olivette Otele nominated for 2023 Harriet Tubman Prize and Laura Shannon Prize Professor Olivette Otele has been nominated for both the Lapidus Center’s Harriet Tubman Prize and the Nanovic Institute’s 2023 Laura Shannon Prize for Contemporary European Studies, for her book, African Europeans: An Untold Story.
SOAS awarded £1.25m to boost impact of migration and marginalisation research A share of a £40 million investment has been secured to mobilise SOAS research on the precursors and effects of migration and displacement, minorities and marginalisation.
Mr Hanny Megally to deliver 2020 Annual Justice Lecture hosted by Lawyers for Justice in Libya ... Mr Hanny Megally, Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation and Commissioner with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, will deliver the 2020Annual Justice Lecture.
Research by Senior Fellow Moritz Kraemer on “The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign ... Research by Moritz Kraemer, Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, with colleagues at the University of Cambridge was shortlisted for the Financial Time’s Responsible Business Education Awards 2022.
SOAS-QFC Islamic Finance Public Lecture and Workshop on Islamic Cryptocurrencies This year’s SOAS-QFC Islamic Finance Public Lecture and Workshop gathered outstanding luminaries of Islamic finance and jurisprudence (fiqh) to discuss cryptocurrencies from an Islamic perspective and its latest developments in the United Kingdom, MENA and MESEA regions.