All Outputs (48)

Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions (2025)
Thesis
Al-Saai, N. Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gulf state laws benefit from religion and custom as sources of legitimacy, particularly when state law’s provisions are based on or similar to them. For example, Arab states sometimes justify their nationality laws, which allow males only to transmit... Read More about Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions.

Muslim Family Laws: Trajectories of Reform (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Welchman, L., Jouirou, Z., & Sharafeldin, M. Muslim Family Laws: Trajectories of Reform. London

We open this paper with the question that guided us in its writing: What are the different pathways through which Qurʾanic ethics of equality, justice and care can be and have been incorporated today into the texts and practices of Muslim family laws... Read More about Muslim Family Laws: Trajectories of Reform.

Muslim Family Law: Trajectories of Reform (2022)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L., Jouirou, Z., & Sharafeldin, M. (2022). Muslim Family Law: Trajectories of Reform. In Z. Mir-Hosseini, M. Al-Sharmani, J. Rumminger, & S. Marsso (Eds.), Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage. Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Law (337-378). Oneworld

Gender Parity in Islamic Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Prospects and Challenges (2022)
Thesis
Shamsuddin, A. M. A. Gender Parity in Islamic Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Prospects and Challenges. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The underlying premise of the research is to argue that the Shariʿa, as a source for the development of law, is flexible, adaptable, and malleable, even for those aspects of the Shariʿa that have historically been seen to be sacrosanct. This research... Read More about Gender Parity in Islamic Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Prospects and Challenges.

Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization (2021)
Book
Welchman, L. (2021). Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.102

Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead... Read More about Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization.

‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles (2020)
Journal Article
Salih, R., Zambelli, E., & Welchman, L. (2021). ‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(7), 1135-1153. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1779948

This article analyses a form of diasporic activism that breaks the seeming duality between diasporic imaginaries and colonial realities, diasporas and refugees. By focusing on the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) it analyses a diasporic standpoint wh... Read More about ‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles.

Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement (2020)
Journal Article
Welchman, L., Zambelli, E., & Salih, R. (2021). Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement. Mediterranean Politics, 26(3), 349-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1749811

This article discusses the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) – a contemporary social movement operating across a number of Arab and western countries. Unlike analysis on the Arab Uprisings which focused on the national dimension of you... Read More about Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement.

The International Human Rights Clinic at SOAS (2018)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2018). The International Human Rights Clinic at SOAS. In A. Alemanno, & L. Khadar (Eds.), Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe (247-271). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316678589.014

The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM): transnational politics, inter/national frameworks and intersectional alliances (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Salih, R., Welchman, L., & Zambelli, E. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM): transnational politics, inter/national frameworks and intersectional alliances. Rome

The influence of the Saudi legal system on Saudi women's rights (2017)
Thesis
Almoammar, A. M. The influence of the Saudi legal system on Saudi women's rights. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

A Historiography of Islamic Family Law (2016)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2018). A Historiography of Islamic Family Law. In A. M. Emon, & R. Ahmed (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (885-932). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199679010.013.19

Human rights, law and politics: a reflection on human rights work in the Middle East and North Africa (2016)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2016). Human rights, law and politics: a reflection on human rights work in the Middle East and North Africa. In A. T. Chase (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa (502-511). Routledge

Beyond the Physicality of Space: East Jerusalem, Kufr ‘Aqab, and the Politics of Everyday Suffering (2016)
Journal Article
Hammoudeh, D., Hamayel, L., & Welchman, L. (2016). Beyond the Physicality of Space: East Jerusalem, Kufr ‘Aqab, and the Politics of Everyday Suffering. Jerusalem quarterly file, 65, 35-60

Islamic law and human rights in the thought and practice of the Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt (2016)
Thesis
Elfegiry, M. A. A. M. Islamic law and human rights in the thought and practice of the Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Qiwamah and Wilayah as Legal Postulates in Muslim Family Laws (2015)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2015). Qiwamah and Wilayah as Legal Postulates in Muslim Family Laws. In Z. Mir-Hosseini, M. Al-Sharmani, & J. Rumminger (Eds.), Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition (132-162). Oneworld

Foreword (2014)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2014). Foreword. In A. Gill, C. Strange, & K. Roberts (Eds.), 'Honour' Killing and Violence: Theory, Policy and Practice (ix-xv). Palgrave Macmillan

Remedies for Forced Marriage: A Handbook for Lawyers. (Online) (2014)
Book
Hossain, S., & Welchman, L. (Eds.). (2014). Remedies for Forced Marriage: A Handbook for Lawyers. (Online). Interights

Rocks, hard places and human rights: anti-terrorism law and policy in Arab states (2012)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2012). Rocks, hard places and human rights: anti-terrorism law and policy in Arab states. In V. V. Ramraj, M. Hor, K. Roach, & G. Williams (Eds.), Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (621-654). Cambridge University Press

Gulf Women and the Codification of Muslim Family Law (2012)
Book Chapter
Welchman, L. (2012). Gulf Women and the Codification of Muslim Family Law. In A. El-Azhary Sonbol (Ed.), Gulf Women (367-406). Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation

Muslim Family Laws and Women's Consent to Marriage: does the law mean what it says (2011)
Journal Article
Welchman, L. (2011). Muslim Family Laws and Women's Consent to Marriage: does the law mean what it says. Social Difference Online, 1, 63-79