“Takaful: The Legal Architecture of Islamic Insurance” by Jo Chitlik

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Sunset over Pangkor Island, Malaysia (CC0 1.0). Insurance forms the foundation of modern economies, transforming uncertainty into manageable obligations, allocating risk, and stabilizing market. Yet conventional insurance, built on secular commercial frameworks, often clashes with Islamic legal and ethical norms. In many, Muslim-majority societies, however, conventional insurance has religious concerns. Classical jurisprudence prohibits riba (interest),…

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“Dignity in Judgment between Religious and Secular Thinking” by Andrea Pin

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Dignity in Judgement between Religious and Secular ThinkingAndrea Pin This text draws on the new book by Andrea Pin, Dignity in Judgment: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press 2025). Editorial Note: Page numbers in the text refer to the prior publication linked in the text. The concept of human dignity has become a…

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“Obligations of the Sacred and the State: When Walking Away Is the Dharmic Act” by Sai Santosh Kumar Kolluru

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Anasuya Feeding the Hindu Trinity, painting on the wall of the Krishna-Sudama Temple of Porbandar (CC0 1.0). In The Illusion of the Repugnant Client: Hindu Ethics in American Legal Practice, I argued that the concept of an inherently repugnant client is incoherent from a dharmic perspective, that the Hindu-American lawyer’s svadharma demands zealous representation of…

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