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| Qualifications |
LLB LLM (Christchurch), Barrister & Solicitor NZ |
| Biography |
Professor M.B. Hooker is one of the most experienced Western analysts of legal systems in Southeast Asia with a research record spanning over 30 years.
Since he began publishing major works on the legal systems of Southeast Asia in the late 1960s, M.B. Hooker has developed the conceptual framework for the study of legal pluralism in the region. His book Legal Pluralism: an Introduction to Colonial and Neo-Colonial Laws (1975) became (and remains) a set text on the subject. His Concise Legal History of South-East Asia (1978) also remains a basic text and sits with his Islamic Law in South-East Asia (1884) as the two works which have defined the outline of legal history for Southeast Asia. He has contributed substantial entries to the authoritative Encyclopedia Islam on all aspects of Islamic law in Indonesia and Malaysia and has pioneered courses in these subjects at the University of Kent (Canterbury UK), the National University of Malaysia, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.
Although he has worked extensively on the legal systems of Malaysia, he is also acknowledged as making seminal contributions to the study of Islamic law (shariah) in Indonesia. Since the early 1990s he has written and contributed to national conferences on the form and position of shariah in the Indonesian state. In 2003, Indonesian Islam: Social Change through Contemporary Fatawa, his in-depth study of the interaction between shariah (as expressed in legal opinions – fatawa) and Muslim society in Indonesia, appeared simultaneously in English and Indonesian. Indonesian reviewers have described it as “ adding to the treasury of the riches of Indonesian Muslim intellectuals through legal reasoning which should be read by all” (Prof Dr Syafii Maarif, General Chair of Muhammadiyah); “extremely useful for intellectuals, researchers on Islam and Indonesian religious scholars (ulama)” (Prof K.H. Ali Yafie).
He has given opinions to the State Government of Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia) on Islam and Adat; to the Attorney General of Malaysia; and to the High Court in London on adoption, divorce and inheritance in Malaysian and Indonesian Syari’ah. |
| Scholarly Interests |
Law of Southeast Asia, Islamic Law |
| Recent Publications |
(2003) Indonesian Islam: Social Change through Contemporary Fatawa Sydney: Allen & Unwin, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
(2003) Islam Mazhab Indonesia Jakarta: Penerbit Teraju
2002 (2002) (ed.) Law and the Chinese in South East Asia, Singapore: Institute of South East Asian Studies
(2003) (ed. With Jamhari & Tim Lindsey) Islamic Law in Indonesia and Malaysia. Studia Islamika (special issue). Vol. 10(1). |
| Appointments |
He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law, ANU and Honorary Senior Associate of the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne and holds an ARC Discovery Grant (2005-2007 |
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