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Long Awaited Air India Bombing Inquiry Report Released
June 17, 2010 – 1:07 pm | One Comment
Long Awaited Air India Bombing Inquiry Report Released

By Faisal Kutty
The long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 is finally out today.
Confirming what many security experts have believed …

Top Sunni Islamic Legal Scholar Dies
March 14, 2010 – 5:45 am | One Comment
Top Sunni Islamic Legal Scholar Dies

By Faisal Kutty
The top Sunni Muslim cleric and legal scholar Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy died of a heart attack on Wednesday (March 10, 2010) in Saudi Arabia.
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, one of the leading …

Law School Rankings and Diversity
March 4, 2010 – 7:23 am | No Comment
Law School Rankings and Diversity

By Faisal Kutty
A new study just published in the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice confirms what many of us have known for years.
The study by two sociologists suggests that the …

Maher Arar Launches New Online National Security Magazine and Appeals to the Supreme Court
February 27, 2010 – 8:05 am | No Comment
Maher Arar Launches New Online National Security Magazine and Appeals to the Supreme Court

By Faisal Kutty
The second issue of Prism Magazine is now available online. The not-for-profit journal launched last month by Maher Arar describes itself as a “security practices monitor”.
The journal has an impressive list …

Studies Confirm that Diversity on the Bench is Key to Equal Justice
February 14, 2010 – 8:09 am | No Comment
Studies Confirm that Diversity on the Bench is Key to Equal Justice

By Faisal Kutty
Two recent studies conclude that a judge’s race or gender makes for a dramatic difference in the outcome of cases they hear—at least for cases in which race and gender are factors. …

Toronto Police Racial Profiling Data Released
February 7, 2010 – 11:25 am | No Comment
Toronto Police Racial Profiling Data Released

By Faisal Kutty
Kudos to the Toronto Star for last week’s in-depth expose on racial profiling by the Toronto police. While officials have routinely denied that they use racial profiling, critics have …

Toward a New Theory of Islamic Constitutionalism
September 18, 2009 – 8:13 am | No Comment
Toward a New Theory of Islamic Constitutionalism

By Faisal Kutty

I had the honor of spending a few days last week with a number of constitutional scholars at the International Association of Law Schools conference on Constitutional …