Legal scholar and historian Anver Emon talks about how power influences the law, including the reaction to the attack on Muslims in London, Ontario, terrorism financing laws, the Azarova hiring scandal at the U of T, systemic barriers to scholarship on Palestine and more.
Anver M. Emon is Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Islamic Law and History; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He studies pre-modern and modern Islamic legal history, the role of Shari'a both inside and outside the Muslim majority world. He was named as a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of law, a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and awarded its 2017 Kitty Newman Memorial Award in Philosophy, and Senior Fellow, Massey College.