This chapter focusses on David Hare’s Murmuring Judges; part of his critically acclaimed ‘State of the Nation’ trilogy, produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In each of these plays, Hare focussed his attention on the seeming dysfunctionality of particular public institutions. The other two plays in the set examined the Church of England and the Labour Party. Murmuring Judges, as the title suggests, focusses its attention on the legal profession; more closely still the Bar and the police. Hare’s critique of legal practice, and education, chimed with contemporary movements in ‘critical legal studies’ or CLS, as it became known. The CLS movement sought to uncover the ‘politics of the law’, and its consequence, arguing that its roots could be located in the modern law school. This chapter brings this claim and Hare’s play into alignment.
Learning of Islamic Law in Contemporary Universities: Case Study of Faculty of Sharīʻah & Law of International Islamic University Islamabad and Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School