Rate My Professor Salim Farrar

Farrar’s research specializations encompass comparative law, Islamic law, law and religion, law and development in the Islamic world, Malaysian law, criminal justice, and Islamic banking and finance. His major publications include the co-authored book Accommodating Muslims under Common Law: A Comparative Analysis with Ghena Krayem (Routledge, 2016; paperback edition 2018), analyzing Muslim accommodation in Australia, the UK, and Canada. He guest-edited the special issue “Law and Development in the Islamic World” for The Law and Development Review (2020). Other significant works are “International Law and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation” in Oxford Bibliographies in International Law (2021); “Islamic Ethics and Truth Commissions in the Muslim World: Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace?” in Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace (Springer, 2020); “Building Islamic Ethics into Development: Exploring the Role and Limitations of ‘Islamic’ Microfinance in Poverty Alleviation – An Indonesian Case Study” with Tanvir Uddin (The Law and Development Review, 2020); “The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Forever on the Periphery of Public International Law?” (Chinese Journal of International Law, 2014); “Accommodating Islamic Banking and Finance in Australia” (UNSW Law Journal, 2011); and “Islamic Jurisprudence and the Role of the Accused: A Re-examination” (Legal Studies, 2003). Farrar contributes to Sydney Law School research themes such as Law in the Region and the World and Governments, Legal Institutions and Rights, and is associated with the Sydney Institute of Criminology and Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence. He has delivered presentations at international conferences on topics including organ transplantation in Islam and religious claims in criminal law.