Jurisdictional Exceptionalisms

Anver M. Emon is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Islamic Law and History at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Institute of Islamic Studies. A Guggenheim Fellow and member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, he has published widely in Islamic law and history. Urfan Khaliq is Professor of International and European Laws and Head of School in the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University. His publications include Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union: A Legal Appraisal (Cambridge, 2008) and International Human Rights Law Documents (Cambridge, 2018).

'International parental child abduction is a global problem. It is the subject of the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention which is generally regarded as a successful international family law instrument and to which there are 101 Contracting States. However, very few of those States are what Emon and Khaliq describe as Muslim Family Law States. Furthermore, until now, there has been no extensive treatise examining the problem from an Islamic perspective. Judicial Exceptionalisms plugs this gap and provides a challenging analysis both of the problems that parental child abduction creates and of the difficulties that Muslim Family Law States face in acceding to the 1980 Convention. In its conclusion, the authors thoughtfully explore the options that Muslim Family Law States might adopt in going forward in reaching an international agreement on how to deal with abduction.' Nigel Lowe, QC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Law, Cardiff University

• Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Part I. 2. The Hague System on International Child Abduction; 3. Muslim Majority States, Human Rights Treaty Obligations and The Hague Abduction Convention; Part II. 4. Islamic Law and Child Custody; 5. Jurisdictional Exceptionalism and Islamic Law; 6. Private International Law, Islamic Family Law States, and Strategic Jurisdiction; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.