John Strawson

John Strawson is honorary Professor of Law at the University of East London where he is a member of the Centre of Human Rights in Conflict and a fellow of the Terrorism and Extremism Research Centre. He works in the areas of international law and Middle East studies with a particular interests in postcolonialism, Islamic law and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He has held visiting positions at the International Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and Birzeit University (Palestine) and was Visiting Professor of Law at the International Islamic University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur in 2007. He is currently working on the relationship between British colonial policy in India and developments in Islamic law.