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The aim of MELG is to provide a peer-reviewed venue for academic analysis in which the legal lens allows scholars and practitioners to address issues of compelling concern to the Middle East. The journal is multi-disciplinary – offering contributors from a wide range of backgrounds an opportunity to discuss issues of governance, jurisprudence, and socio-political organization, thereby promoting a common conceptual framework and vocabulary for exchanging ideas across boundaries – geographic and otherwise. It is also broad in scope, discussing issues of critical importance to the Middle East without treating the region as a self-contained unit. Through this approach, MELG hopes to contribute to shared understandings between peoples, and enhanced discourse on institutional and human development at the local and global levels.
A collaborative effort between The University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Yale Law School, MELG brings a global commitment that is further enhanced by the international and interdisciplinary editorial board of respected faculty from universities across the world.
As a journal with a regional focus, MELG provides a forum for those involved both in Middle Eastern studies and the use of law as a point of intersection or a point of departure in their research. Yet as a journal with a global scope, MELG offers a creative and innovative space for critical and reflective interdisciplinary approaches to jurisprudence, governance, and institutional development more generally. History, politics, economics, religion, and culture are certainly relevant for understanding the challenges facing the Middle East. Those factors are immersed in a more general context of government institutions and legal systems overseeing resource management, distribution, and ultimately justice. MELG offers an intellectual space for a community of scholars devoted to the interdisciplinary study of law, governance, and the Middle East from a global perspective.
MELG fills a gap in the academic literature, addressing with breadth and depth compelling legal, administrative, and institutional issues generally, and in the Middle East specifically, while targeting those in academia, government, and the civil society sector who have stakes in these matters.
For more information, contact Anver M. Emon at anver.emon@utoronto.ca
The aim of MELG is to provide a peer-reviewed venue for academic analysis in which the legal lens allows scholars and practitioners to address issues of compelling concern to the Middle East. The journal is multi-disciplinary – offering contributors from a wide range of backgrounds an opportunity to discuss issues of governance, jurisprudence, and socio-political organization, thereby promoting a common conceptual framework and vocabulary for exchanging ideas across boundaries – geographic and otherwise. It is also broad in scope, discussing issues of critical importance to the Middle East without treating the region as a self-contained unit. Through this approach, MELG hopes to contribute to shared understandings between peoples, and enhanced discourse on institutional and human development at the local and global levels.
A collaborative effort between The University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Yale Law School, MELG brings a global commitment that is further enhanced by the international and interdisciplinary editorial board of respected faculty from universities across the world.
As a journal with a regional focus, MELG provides a forum for those involved both in Middle Eastern studies and the use of law as a point of intersection or a point of departure in their research. Yet as a journal with a global scope, MELG offers a creative and innovative space for critical and reflective interdisciplinary approaches to jurisprudence, governance, and institutional development more generally. History, politics, economics, religion, and culture are certainly relevant for understanding the challenges facing the Middle East. Those factors are immersed in a more general context of government institutions and legal systems overseeing resource management, distribution, and ultimately justice. MELG offers an intellectual space for a community of scholars devoted to the interdisciplinary study of law, governance, and the Middle East from a global perspective.
MELG fills a gap in the academic literature, addressing with breadth and depth compelling legal, administrative, and institutional issues generally, and in the Middle East specifically, while targeting those in academia, government, and the civil society sector who have stakes in these matters.
For more information, contact Anver M. Emon at anver.emon@utoronto.ca