RELIGARE Expert Seminar: Unregistered Marriages and Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Legal Systems

4 September 2012

Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm
Venue: Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

The RELIGARE project contributes to enhance interdisciplinary co-operation in the area of religious pluralism in Europe and to examine new normative frameworks on the field of religion and secularism with a view to making policy recommendations for improvement.

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Programme

Coffee, tea and lunch will be provided

• 10.00 – 10.30 Registration and Refreshments
  
• 10.30 – 10.45 Welcome and Introduction
  Prakash Shah, Queen Mary, University of London and Marie-Claire Foblets, K.U. Leuven, Coordinator of the RELIGARE Project
  
• 10.45 – 12.30 Unregistered Marriages
  Unregistered Marriages in Denmark - Anika Liversage, Danish National Centre for Social Welfare
  Unregistered Marriages as a Challenge to Turkish Law - Derya Bayir, GLOCUL, Queen Mary, University of London
  Unregistered Marriages in the English Courts - Prakash Shah, GLOCUL, Queen Mary, University of London
  
• 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
  
• 14.00 – 15.00 Plenary:
  Transnational Families between Dutch and Islamic Family Law - Betty de Hart, Centre for Migration Law/Institute for Sociology of Law, Radbound University, Nijmegen
  
• 15.00 – 15.15 Refreshments
  
• 15.15 – 17.00 Alternative Dispute Resolution
  Religious Divorce in a Secular State: A Case-Study Analysis - Gillian Douglas, Cardiff Law School
  Pathways to Family Dispute Resolution within Migrant Families in Belgium - Kim Lecoyer, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University and Barbara Truffin, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  Transnational Dispute Resolution among Kurds in London - Latif Tas, GLOCUL, Queen Mary, University of London
  
• 17.00 – 18.30 Drinks Reception/Break
  
• 18.30 – 19.30 Plenary:
  What is True and False about UK Sharia Councils - John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis

Contact

For more information about this event, or if you have any special requirements, please contact Preet Virdi at m.virdi@qmul.ac.uk

Directions to Venue

The Mason Lecture Theatre is in the Francis Bancroft Building, which is number 26 on the Mile End campus map. This event is being held during the Paralympics, so please check www.tfl.gov.uk for up to date London travel information.