Staff Profile:Dr. Samia Bano

Name:

Dr Samia Bano

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Deputy Director of Research

Dr. Samia Bano currently teaches the following courses on the LL.B programme:

• Family Law
• Criminology
• Gender and Law
•  LL.M Research Methods in Law (Module Convener)

Areas of Interest:

Family Law, Gender, Race and the Law, Legal Pluralism, Muslim Family Law, Religion and the Law, Social and Political Theory.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• Muslim Marriage and Mahr: The experince of British Muslim Women in (eds) (2011) R Mehdi and J.S Neilsen, Embedding Mahr in the European Legal System, DJOF Publishing
• Cultural translations and Legal Conflict: Muslim women and the Shariah Councils in Britain in (eds) (2011) A Hellum, S Ali and A Griffiths, Transnational Law and Transnational Relations, Ashgate Publishing
• The Practice of Law-Making and Forced Marriage: What is the role of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal? In (eds) (2011) Gill, A. , Anitha, S. Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective, London, Zed Books
• Tackling 'crimes of honour': Evaluating the social and legal responses to combating Forced Marriages in Britain in (eds) (2011) M Idriss and T Abbas Honour, Violence and Islam, Routledge
• Asking the Law Questions: Islamophobia, Agency and Muslim Women in (eds) (2010) A Karim and S Sayyid, Rethinking Islamophobia, Hurst Publishing
• Zoora Shah Judgement, co-written with Pragna Patel, Feminist Judgements in (eds) (2010) Rosemary Hunter, Erica Rackley and Clare McGlynn, Hart Publishing
• Beyond the Sacred and Secular: Muslim Women, the Law and the delivery of Justice in (eds) (2010) R Banakar, Rights discourse, Ashgate Publishing
• Ministry of Justice Report (forthcoming) A review of research on family-related dispute resolution in Sharia councils in England and Wales.
• Shariah Councils and Resolving Matrimonial Disputes: Gender and Justice in the 'Shadow' of Law'? in A Gill and R Thiara (eds), (2009) Violence Against Women, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Multicultural Interlegality? Negotiating Family law in the context of Muslim legal pluralism in Britain in (ed.) M Freeman Law and Anthropology (CUP 2009)
• "In pursuit of Religious and Legal Diversity: A Response to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sharia Debate in Britain" (2008) 10 Ecclesiastical Law Journal 283-309.
• "Muslim Family Justice and Human Rights: The Experience of British Muslim Women", (Winter 2007), Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 1, Issue 4.
• "Islamic Arbitration and Human Rights in Britain", (2007) Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development, Special Issue, 2007 (1).
• Standpoint, Difference and Feminist Research" in Banakar, R and Travers, M (eds) Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research (Hart Publishing 2005).
• "Legal Pluralism and Muslim Family Law in Britain" Journal of South Pacific law, University of the South Pacific, Article 6, Vol. 4, 2000.
• "Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Customary Law in Britain" in Yuval-Davis, N. and Werbner, P (eds.), Women, Citizenship and Difference (Zed Books, 1999).
• Book Review, (eds) Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha. Living Our Religions. Hindu and Muslim South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experience in Journal of Intercultural Studies, (Dec 2009) p56

Forthcoming

• Dispute Resolution and Muslim Family Law in Britain, Palgrave MacMillan (Monograph, due Autumn 2011)

Recent Conference Papers

• "Cultural Translations and Legal Conflict? The Case of British Muslims", ESRC Workshop 'Recognising Gender and Culture', University of Stirling, 18 September 2008.
• "Asking the Law Questions; Islamophobia, Agency and Muslim Women", AHRC/ESRC Workshop 'Religion and Society', University of Oxford, 17 September 2008.
• "Who uses Sharia Family Law in the UK. Is it effective?", Sharia Family Law: developing the Knowledge Base Roundtable, Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy and the Ministry of Justice, University of Oxford, 30 July 2008.
• "Muslim Family Law and new socio-legal configurations in the West", IMISCOE Workshop 'Legal and Normative Accommodation in Multicultural Europe': A panel of experts, Brussels, 14-15 July 2008.
• "Family Law, Mediation and the Sharia Debate", Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference, Sussex Law School, 10-12 July 2008.
• "Negotiating Family Law in the Context of Muslim Legal Pluralism in the UK", Law and Anthropology Colloquium, UCL Law School, 7-8 July 2008.
• "Muslim Women, the Law and the Delivery of Justice", Rights Discourse Workshop, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, April 2008.
• "Islamophobia and the Law", Thinking Through Islamophobia Sumposium, Centre for the study of Ethnicity and Racism, University of Leeds, April 2008.
• "Privacy in Islamic Law", British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 29-30 November 2007.
• "Between the Sacred and Secular? Muslim Women and legal pluralism in Britain", Research seminar: Linking research on transnational relations, University of Oslo, 14-16 June 2007.
• "Does religious law matter in modern day Britain?" Symposium, Shariah Law in the UK: Theory and Practice, Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham, 25 April 2007.
• "Religious Arbitration and the Human Rights Act 1998", SLSA conference, University of Kent, 3-4 April 2007.
• "Islamic abitration and the privatization of family law: justice under the shadow of law?" Religion and Law Workshop, School of Law, University of Kent, (7 February 2007.
• "Beyond Sharia and liberal secularity: rethinking the relationship between gender equality, religious arbitration and multiculturalism in Britain", Staff Seminar Series, School of Law, University of Westminster, 14 February 2007.
• "Multiculturalism and Family Law", Gender, Marriage Migration and Justice in Multicultural Britain Conference, Roehampton University, London, 12 January 2006.
• "Communal Autonomy, South Asian Muslim Women and Shariah Councils in Britain" Crossroads: Debating Women's Rights, Racism and Religion, University of Oslo, 31 May-1 June 2005.

Qualifications:

BA (Hons.) (Oxford Brookes), MA (Greenwich), Ph.D. (Warwick)

Biographical Details

Samia Bano joined the School of Law in September 2005. She studied Law and History at Oxford Brookes University and gained her MA in Gender and Ethnic Studies from the University of Greenwich. She has recently completed her doctorate at the University of Warwick on 'Muslim Family Law and South Asian Muslim Women in Britain'.  She has worked in the area of women's human rights for a number of years.