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&#160;The Law of WaqfModern State Control and Nationalization&#160;May 16-18, 2008Le deuxi&#232;me colloque &#171; Le Droit et le Waqf (fondations pieuses) : nationalisations et le contr&#244;le de l'Etat &#187; aura lieu les 16-18 mai 2008 &#224; l'Universit&#233; Harvard, Facult&#233; de Droit, Programme Droit musulman, Cambridge, Massachussets (USA).&#160;&#160;Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge St.Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.The Second Law of Waqf Conference, on &#8220;Modern State Control and Nationalization,&#8221; will be held May 16-18, 2008 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. Presentations explore colonial law vis-&#224;-vis the waqf both as an institution and as physical property in the Muslim world before the independence of the colonized countries. In the interests of discovering the law that adapted and was adapted in relation to the waqf, papers will focus on innovative legal mechanisms or discussions that were presented to deal with the waqf status quo found or established by the colonizing countries upon intervention in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are requested. http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp/events/ConfWaqf2Reg.phpFriday, May 16, 2008&#160;3:00&#8212;3:15 Welcome and Introduction, by Baber Johansen (Harvard University)&#160;3:15&#8212;4:15 Keynote Speech, by Rudolph Peters (University of Amsterdam)&#160;PANEL I: The Ottoman Legal Regime and Its Legacy&#160;4:15&#8212;4:45 Tahsin &#214;zcan (University of Istanbul), The Centralization Process of the Waqf Administration in the Ottoman State4:45&#8212;5:15 Konstantinos Tsitselikis (University of Macedonia), The Waqf in Greece: A Case of Resistance to Civil Law5:15&#8212;6:00 Discussion&#160;Reception&#160;7:00 Conference dinner, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St.&#160;Saturday, May 17, 2008&#160;PANEL II: North Africa&#160;9:15&#8212;9:45 Franz Kogelmann (University of Bayreuth), Law Reform in Morocco Under the French Protectorate: The Example of Habous9:45&#8212;10:15 Maaouia Saidouni (University of Montreal), The Complex Evolution of French Waqf Legislation in Algeria (1830-1873)10:15&#8212;10:45 Mahmoud Abossawa (Fatah University, Tripoli, Libya), The Law of Waqf in Tripoli under Italian Occupation10:45&#8212;11:15 Claudia Gazzini (Oxford University), The Awqaf in Colonial Libya (1911-1932)11:15&#8212;12:15 Discussion&#160;Lunch&#160;PANEL III: Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine&#160;2:15&#8212;2:45 Uri Kupferschmidt (University of Haifa), The Illusions of British and French Waqf Control: Some Comparisons Between the Mandates for Palestine and Syria-Lebanon2:45&#8212;3:15 Max Weiss (Princeton University), The Defense and Definition of Shi&#8216;i Waqf in Mandate Lebanon3:15&#8212;3:45 Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence), Colonizing Waqf Law: Istibd&#226;l and the French Mandate&#8217;s Legal Program to Nationalize Waqf in Syria (1920-1946) --- deals also with shi&#8216;&#238; waqf? And not at all with Christian and Jewish waqf3:45&#8212;4:15 Yitzhak Reiter (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), &#8220;Shar&#8216;iatization&#8221; of Colonial Law: Shari&#8216;a Court Accommodation of the 1926 British Mandate Land Expropriation Law in Palestine4:15&#8212;5:15 Discussion&#160;Sunday, May 18, 2008&#160;PANEL IV: South and Southeast Asia&#160;9:15&#8212;9:45 M. Mohsin Alam and Vivek Rathore (Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad), Judicial Dicta and the Role of the Judiciary in the Preservation of Waqf: The Indian Experience9:45&#8212;10:15 Murat Cizak&#231;a (Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur),10:15&#8212;10:45 Ismail Mat (University of Brunei Darussalam), The Waqf Institution Under British Administration in Malaysia10:45&#8212;11:45 Discussion11:45&#8212;12:00 Concluding Remarks, by Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence)For more information access www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp.&#160;