Dr. Muhammad Zubair Abbasi specialises in Islamic law and comparative law. His research examines the relationship between Islamic law and state legal systems in Muslim-majority and Western societies, colonial legal history in South Asia, and the transformative impact of generative AI on legal systems. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an LLM in Corporate Governance from the University of Manchester. He is based at the School of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London. He currently serves as an Editor of the Yearbook of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law and as South Asia, Middle East and UK Editor for Harvard Law School’s SHARIAsource. || Dr. Kaveri Qureshi is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, where she is Co-Director of GENDER.ED, the university’s hub for gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of the monograph Marital breakdown among British Asians: conjugality, legal pluralism and new kinship (Palgrave), and a number of articles on experiences of marriage and divorce in transnational South Asian contexts. She is a co-editor of Divorce portals: the postdivorce in Asian contexts (Rutgers University Press) and of the forthcoming volume Gender at work in Pakistan (Routledge). She has wide interests in families and relationships, social studies of reproduction, and in intersections between the anthropology of medicine, law and kinship and relatedness.
