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Books by Nahed Samour
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/gunneflo-book-symposium-part-3/, 2017
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Juristinnenbundes (djbZ), 1/2018, 21. Jahrgang, Seite 12–15. Das Interview: Seite 15–16., 2018
Wir haben jeweils drei Stimmen für die Pro- und die Contra-Position für eine notwendig verknappte... more Wir haben jeweils drei Stimmen für die Pro- und die
Contra-Position für eine notwendig verknappte, zugespitzte
Stellungnahme zum Kopftuch der Rechtsreferendarin resp.
Richterin gewinnen können. Zudem haben die Autorinnen
sich nach Abgabe ihres eigenen und Lektüre aller Texte noch
zu einem Interview bereit erklärt, in dem eigene Ausführungen
ergänzt und Gegenargumente adressiert werden konnten.
Samour, Nahed: Rechtsreferendarin mit Kopftuch: Rosa Parks im Zuschauerraum des Gerichts, VerfBlog, 2017/7/07, https://verfassungsblog.de/rechtsreferendarin-mit-kopftuch-rosa-parks-im-zuschauerraum-des-gerichts/, 2017
International Law and Religion. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Martti Koskenniemi, Monica García-Salmones & Paolo Amorosa (Hrsg.), Oxford University Press 2017, pp. 239-268., 2017
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale (eds.) Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Islamic Legal Studies; Harvard University Press, 2018, pp. 44-66., 2017
European Journal of International Law, 2014
by Adil Hasan Khan, Charlotte Peevers, Fredrik Petersson, Nahed Samour, German Sandoval, Umut Özsu, Mai Taha, Cyra Choudhury, Vik Kanwar, Mohammad Shahabuddin, John Reynolds, Vasuki Nesiah, Michael Fakhri, Luis Eslava, Noha Aboueldahab, Anthony Farley, Fabia Fernandes Carvalho, Hani Sayed, and Vannessa Hearman
Papers by Nahed Samour
APSA MENA Newsletter Spring 2024, 2024
In this short piece, we argue that it is both incorrect under international law to label the sieg... more In this short piece, we argue that it is both incorrect under international law to label the siege on Gaza as a 'war' between Israel and Hamas, and politically and morally problematic. Abandoning the war label more accurately puts Israel in the frame as an illegally occupying power that has been fundamentally discriminating against Palestinians for decades and has now intensified its operations.
Arab Berlin
Is there a productive way to go beyond the omnipresent binary images of Arab Berlin? At present, ... more Is there a productive way to go beyond the omnipresent binary images of Arab Berlin? At present, many public debates engage with the binary images that come to mind: either the romanticized notions of Arab food fostered by the abundance of Arab restaurants and fast-food places dominating central neighborhoods of Berlin, or the securitized image of Arab Clans, especially in the German-language public discourses, reinforcing questionable and discriminatory policing practices and investigation methods (Özvatan, Neuhauser, Yurdakul 2023). Political party elites often push exclusionary media discourses and public debates, and the media flare up repeatedly to show that the multicultural façade has its limits. While there are vibrant dynamic communities on one side, there are also discriminatory structures on the other. This book asks whether a city with a multicultural façade offers equality for all its citizens and non-citizens. The reality says otherwise. 1 One recent prominent example is the debate about the violence on New Year's Eve of 2023. Dubbed the "Berliner Silversternacht-Krawalle", attacks targeted security forces, police, and firefighters in Neukölln, a neighborhood visibly populated by Arabs, despite ongoing gentrification. Immediately, conservative politicians and media coverage spoke of "little unintegrated pashas" living in their parallel societies and 1 For example, people with Arab and Turkish names are severely discriminated against on the German housing market. They are significantly less likely to be contacted by landlords than a German applicant. See Bayerischer Rundfunk/Der Spiegel, "No Place for Foreigners. Why Hanna is invited to view the apartment and Ismail is not" (2017), https:/ /interaktiv.br.de/hanna-und-ismail/english/index.html. With no specific mention of Arab students, the study refers to recently immigrated school children and shows that young people with a migrant background are at a disadvantage in many respects compared to their non-migrant peers, with Berlin being particularly dire for these students. See Caritas Study (2019) Bildungssituation von jungen Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund (https://www.caritas.de) https://www.caritas.de/fuerprofis/fachthemen/kinderundjugendli che/bildungs-chancen/bildungssituation-von-jungen-menschen-mi. Similarly, see Bertelsmann Stiftung/Klemm, Klaus (ed.) (2023), Jugendliche ohne Hauptschulabschluss Demographische Verknappung und qualifikatorische Vergeudung. 2 On the diversity within the Arab community in the USA, see Moll, Yasemin (2023), Arab Americans are a much more diverse group than many of their neighbors mistakenly assume, https://theconversation.com/arab-americans-area much more diverse group than -manyof-their-neighbors-mistakenly-assume-201930?fbclid=IwAR1KZgm09kmmU3v53y_IQok8iK deMl2dVHOtcdT3NM9hamFX36eTBLlmsEg.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2022
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
International criminal justice series, Nov 26, 2022
In this chapter we ask how and in which form international law can serve as a tool for realising ... more In this chapter we ask how and in which form international law can serve as a tool for realising Palestine's decolonial equality. We do this by placing international criminal law and public law in conversation to highlight what experiences of (denied) statehood are included and excluded from these legal regimes. We adopt a methodology of feminist praxis to explore the crucial role of historical factors that persist in shaping Palestine's limited legal possibilities. Whilst this chapter sounds a note of caution about the scope for radical change from the pursuit of liberal legalist projects, it nevertheless seeks to explore the gains that could be made for Palestinian liberation by adopting the framework of decolonial equality.
International law and religion, 2017
Bandung, Global History, and International Law
's book shows how the normalization of targeted killing emerged through extensive legal work. Off... more 's book shows how the normalization of targeted killing emerged through extensive legal work. Offering a meticulous account of history and practice, the book highlights the law and politics of protection in the dispute on killing to protect. Hobbes crafted his state sovereignty in Leviathan "with no other design than to set before men's eyes the mutual relation between protection and obedience".[1] Targeted killing is a response to the call for state protection, in international as much as domestic law. It produces unequal distribution of rights and protection, and unequal distribution of suspicion, with no security for anyone. Gunneflo demonstrates how the pervasiveness of law in targeted killing and the compulsion to legality aims at producing a legal authority to engage in targeted killing (p 14). This legal authority
Die verfassungsrechtliche Billigung der Verbannung einer kopftuchtragenden Rechtsreferendarin in ... more Die verfassungsrechtliche Billigung der Verbannung einer kopftuchtragenden Rechtsreferendarin in den Zuschauerraum eines Gerichtssaals erweist sich als folgenreich. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht modifiziert in seinem Beschluss vom 27. Juni 2017 nicht nur das staatliche Gebot religios-weltanschaulicher Neutralitat hin zu einer „unbedingten Neutralitat“ und setzt Referendare staatlichen Akteuren gleich. Es schafft auch ein Zweiklassensystem der juristischen Ausbildung.
djbZ, 2018
Fokus | Nahed Samour Die erkennbare Muslimin als Richterin weltanschaulich und religiös neutral z... more Fokus | Nahed Samour Die erkennbare Muslimin als Richterin weltanschaulich und religiös neutral zu verhalten. Insbesondere dürfen sie Kleidungsstücke, Symbole oder andere Merkmale nicht tragen oder verwenden, die objektiv geeignet sind, das Vertrauen in die Neutralität ihrer Amtsführung zu beeinträchtigen oder den politischen, religiösen oder weltanschaulichen Frieden zu gefährden."
Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online, 2018
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017
This chapter argues that contexts and interpretations of Islamic International Law have shifted f... more This chapter argues that contexts and interpretations of Islamic International Law have shifted from imperial to dissident, and that the imperial-dissident divide is a necessary frame for assessing Islamic international law as a legal system today. Core legal concepts of territorial acquisition through conquest were elaborated at a time that laid the foundations for Islamic Empires. Importantly, the laws of territorial conquest were linked to the laws of property, taxation and trusts, which were key in keeping conquered territory divided or united. Conceptional interpretations shifted from the imperial to the dissident when territory was not to be acquired but later on defended against conflicting legal orders permitting foreign domination. This historic, paradigmatic shift from a law with a formerly imperial character to law as dissent might explain some of the existing dissonances within Islamic International law as well as between Islamic international law and prevailing understa...
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/gunneflo-book-symposium-part-3/, 2017
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Juristinnenbundes (djbZ), 1/2018, 21. Jahrgang, Seite 12–15. Das Interview: Seite 15–16., 2018
Wir haben jeweils drei Stimmen für die Pro- und die Contra-Position für eine notwendig verknappte... more Wir haben jeweils drei Stimmen für die Pro- und die
Contra-Position für eine notwendig verknappte, zugespitzte
Stellungnahme zum Kopftuch der Rechtsreferendarin resp.
Richterin gewinnen können. Zudem haben die Autorinnen
sich nach Abgabe ihres eigenen und Lektüre aller Texte noch
zu einem Interview bereit erklärt, in dem eigene Ausführungen
ergänzt und Gegenargumente adressiert werden konnten.
Samour, Nahed: Rechtsreferendarin mit Kopftuch: Rosa Parks im Zuschauerraum des Gerichts, VerfBlog, 2017/7/07, https://verfassungsblog.de/rechtsreferendarin-mit-kopftuch-rosa-parks-im-zuschauerraum-des-gerichts/, 2017
International Law and Religion. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Martti Koskenniemi, Monica García-Salmones & Paolo Amorosa (Hrsg.), Oxford University Press 2017, pp. 239-268., 2017
Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale (eds.) Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Islamic Legal Studies; Harvard University Press, 2018, pp. 44-66., 2017
European Journal of International Law, 2014
by Adil Hasan Khan, Charlotte Peevers, Fredrik Petersson, Nahed Samour, German Sandoval, Umut Özsu, Mai Taha, Cyra Choudhury, Vik Kanwar, Mohammad Shahabuddin, John Reynolds, Vasuki Nesiah, Michael Fakhri, Luis Eslava, Noha Aboueldahab, Anthony Farley, Fabia Fernandes Carvalho, Hani Sayed, and Vannessa Hearman
APSA MENA Newsletter Spring 2024, 2024
In this short piece, we argue that it is both incorrect under international law to label the sieg... more In this short piece, we argue that it is both incorrect under international law to label the siege on Gaza as a 'war' between Israel and Hamas, and politically and morally problematic. Abandoning the war label more accurately puts Israel in the frame as an illegally occupying power that has been fundamentally discriminating against Palestinians for decades and has now intensified its operations.
Arab Berlin
Is there a productive way to go beyond the omnipresent binary images of Arab Berlin? At present, ... more Is there a productive way to go beyond the omnipresent binary images of Arab Berlin? At present, many public debates engage with the binary images that come to mind: either the romanticized notions of Arab food fostered by the abundance of Arab restaurants and fast-food places dominating central neighborhoods of Berlin, or the securitized image of Arab Clans, especially in the German-language public discourses, reinforcing questionable and discriminatory policing practices and investigation methods (Özvatan, Neuhauser, Yurdakul 2023). Political party elites often push exclusionary media discourses and public debates, and the media flare up repeatedly to show that the multicultural façade has its limits. While there are vibrant dynamic communities on one side, there are also discriminatory structures on the other. This book asks whether a city with a multicultural façade offers equality for all its citizens and non-citizens. The reality says otherwise. 1 One recent prominent example is the debate about the violence on New Year's Eve of 2023. Dubbed the "Berliner Silversternacht-Krawalle", attacks targeted security forces, police, and firefighters in Neukölln, a neighborhood visibly populated by Arabs, despite ongoing gentrification. Immediately, conservative politicians and media coverage spoke of "little unintegrated pashas" living in their parallel societies and 1 For example, people with Arab and Turkish names are severely discriminated against on the German housing market. They are significantly less likely to be contacted by landlords than a German applicant. See Bayerischer Rundfunk/Der Spiegel, "No Place for Foreigners. Why Hanna is invited to view the apartment and Ismail is not" (2017), https:/ /interaktiv.br.de/hanna-und-ismail/english/index.html. With no specific mention of Arab students, the study refers to recently immigrated school children and shows that young people with a migrant background are at a disadvantage in many respects compared to their non-migrant peers, with Berlin being particularly dire for these students. See Caritas Study (2019) Bildungssituation von jungen Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund (https://www.caritas.de) https://www.caritas.de/fuerprofis/fachthemen/kinderundjugendli che/bildungs-chancen/bildungssituation-von-jungen-menschen-mi. Similarly, see Bertelsmann Stiftung/Klemm, Klaus (ed.) (2023), Jugendliche ohne Hauptschulabschluss Demographische Verknappung und qualifikatorische Vergeudung. 2 On the diversity within the Arab community in the USA, see Moll, Yasemin (2023), Arab Americans are a much more diverse group than many of their neighbors mistakenly assume, https://theconversation.com/arab-americans-area much more diverse group than -manyof-their-neighbors-mistakenly-assume-201930?fbclid=IwAR1KZgm09kmmU3v53y_IQok8iK deMl2dVHOtcdT3NM9hamFX36eTBLlmsEg.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2022
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
International criminal justice series, Nov 26, 2022
In this chapter we ask how and in which form international law can serve as a tool for realising ... more In this chapter we ask how and in which form international law can serve as a tool for realising Palestine's decolonial equality. We do this by placing international criminal law and public law in conversation to highlight what experiences of (denied) statehood are included and excluded from these legal regimes. We adopt a methodology of feminist praxis to explore the crucial role of historical factors that persist in shaping Palestine's limited legal possibilities. Whilst this chapter sounds a note of caution about the scope for radical change from the pursuit of liberal legalist projects, it nevertheless seeks to explore the gains that could be made for Palestinian liberation by adopting the framework of decolonial equality.
International law and religion, 2017
Bandung, Global History, and International Law
's book shows how the normalization of targeted killing emerged through extensive legal work. Off... more 's book shows how the normalization of targeted killing emerged through extensive legal work. Offering a meticulous account of history and practice, the book highlights the law and politics of protection in the dispute on killing to protect. Hobbes crafted his state sovereignty in Leviathan "with no other design than to set before men's eyes the mutual relation between protection and obedience".[1] Targeted killing is a response to the call for state protection, in international as much as domestic law. It produces unequal distribution of rights and protection, and unequal distribution of suspicion, with no security for anyone. Gunneflo demonstrates how the pervasiveness of law in targeted killing and the compulsion to legality aims at producing a legal authority to engage in targeted killing (p 14). This legal authority
Die verfassungsrechtliche Billigung der Verbannung einer kopftuchtragenden Rechtsreferendarin in ... more Die verfassungsrechtliche Billigung der Verbannung einer kopftuchtragenden Rechtsreferendarin in den Zuschauerraum eines Gerichtssaals erweist sich als folgenreich. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht modifiziert in seinem Beschluss vom 27. Juni 2017 nicht nur das staatliche Gebot religios-weltanschaulicher Neutralitat hin zu einer „unbedingten Neutralitat“ und setzt Referendare staatlichen Akteuren gleich. Es schafft auch ein Zweiklassensystem der juristischen Ausbildung.
djbZ, 2018
Fokus | Nahed Samour Die erkennbare Muslimin als Richterin weltanschaulich und religiös neutral z... more Fokus | Nahed Samour Die erkennbare Muslimin als Richterin weltanschaulich und religiös neutral zu verhalten. Insbesondere dürfen sie Kleidungsstücke, Symbole oder andere Merkmale nicht tragen oder verwenden, die objektiv geeignet sind, das Vertrauen in die Neutralität ihrer Amtsführung zu beeinträchtigen oder den politischen, religiösen oder weltanschaulichen Frieden zu gefährden."
Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online, 2018
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017
This chapter argues that contexts and interpretations of Islamic International Law have shifted f... more This chapter argues that contexts and interpretations of Islamic International Law have shifted from imperial to dissident, and that the imperial-dissident divide is a necessary frame for assessing Islamic international law as a legal system today. Core legal concepts of territorial acquisition through conquest were elaborated at a time that laid the foundations for Islamic Empires. Importantly, the laws of territorial conquest were linked to the laws of property, taxation and trusts, which were key in keeping conquered territory divided or united. Conceptional interpretations shifted from the imperial to the dissident when territory was not to be acquired but later on defended against conflicting legal orders permitting foreign domination. This historic, paradigmatic shift from a law with a formerly imperial character to law as dissent might explain some of the existing dissonances within Islamic International law as well as between Islamic international law and prevailing understa...
This special issue of YIMEL features a selection of articles inspired by the conference on ‘Islam... more This special issue of YIMEL features a selection of articles inspired by the conference on ‘Islamic Law and Empire’, which was held at Harvard Law School between 1–3 June 2015. The conference explored a series of new, and interdisciplinary, theoretical approaches to law and Empire broadly relating to the Islamic legal tradition and both historical and contemporary Islamicate societies. Studies of Empire, as a mode of governance, a trans-historical reality and an enduring legacy of European colonialism, continue to generate an influential body of academic literature. Yet, accounts of multiple Muslim and non-Muslim imperial reformulations of Islamic legality and their lasting legacies in local, regional and international legal domains are still relatively few. The goal of this special issue is to generate a range of stimulating discussions on law and Empire in the Muslim world, with a particular focus on theoretical meeting points between the studies in history, politics, sociology an...
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