Pascale Fournier recently published her book Mariages musulmans, tribunaux d’Occident : Les transplantations juridiques et le regard du droit with the Presses de Sciences Po (Paris). This book, published in English in 2010 by Ashgate publishing, addresses the migration of Muslim family law towards Western courts. What place must Western countries give to Muslim legal norms…
This fall, Prof. Fournier spent much time in radio stations and published several opinion letters criticizing the “Charter of Quebec Values”, a document put forward by the Quebec government which proposes inter alia the legislative ban of “ostentatious” religious symbols among all provincial public employees, including health care and education workers. In many media forums,…
In the fall of 2013, Professor Fournier has participated in several initiatives by a group of Quebec professors and intellectuals mobilized for the cause of social and religious pluralism. This group, called “Pluralists 2.0”, is made up of specialists of law, sociology, philosophy, political science and religious studies. The group was initially formed to react…
