King's College London - Professor Maleiha Malik

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Professor Maleiha Malik

Contact details

Room: SW3.03

Biography

Maleiha Malik is a Professor in Law. She studied law at the University of London and University of Oxford. She is a barrister and a member and fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. Maleiha Malik’s research focuses on the theory and practice of discrimination law. She has written extensively on discrimination law, minority protection and feminist theory. She is the co-author of a leading text titled Discrimination Law: Theory and Practice which was published in 2008. She is, along with Dr Jon Wilson from the Department of History at KCL, the co-ordinator of the AHRC project on ‘Traditions in the Present’ which explores the relevance of 'tradition' in contemporary societies. Maleiha Malik's current research focuses on the intersection between sexual and cultural equality, and it explores the adjustments that may need to be made to feminist theory to accommodate increasing cultural pluralism. She teaches courses in Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Discrimination Law and European Law to undergraduates and postgraduate students.

Research

Maleiha Malik's research is concerned with anti-discrimination law. She has published articles, chapters and essays on the legal and policy issues in this area.

Selection of publications

Books

Discrimination Law: Theory and Practice, Sweet and Maxwell, 2008 (co-authored, 1300 pages). ISBN: 9780421554405

Selected articles and chapters

‘Racist Crime’ in (1999) 62 Modern Law Review 409- 424. ISSN 09267961
‘Racially Aggravated Offences’ (1999) 10(1) KCLJ 126-132. ISSN 09615768
‘Governing After the Human Rights Act’ (2000) 63(1) Modern Law Review 281- 293. ISSN 09267961
‘Modernising Discrimination Law: Proposals for a Single Equality Act for Britain’ (2007) 9 (2) International Journal of Discrimination and the Law pp. 73-94
‘Complex Equality’ (2008) 68(1) Droit et Societe, Revue Internationale de Theorie du Droit et de Sociologie Juridique. ISSN 0769-3362
‘Engaging With Extremists’ (2008) Volume 22(1) March International Relations 85-105. ISSN 0047-1178
‘Religious Freedom and Multiculturalism: R (Shabina Begum v Denbigh High School) (2008) KCLJ
‘Communal Goods as Human Rights’, Understanding Human Rights, Tomkins and Gearty (eds), Mansell: London, 1996, pp. 138-170. ISBN 0720122953
‘Minorities and the Human Rights Act’ in Sceptical Approaches to the Human Rights Act, T. Campbell, K.D. Ewing and A. Tomkins (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 277-297. ISBN 0199246696
‘Faith and the State of Jurisprudence’ in Faith in Law: Essays in Legal Theory, P. Oliver et al (eds.), Oxford: Hart, 2000. ISBN-10: 1901362957
‘Justice’ in Fields of Faith, D. Ford, B. Quash and J. Soskice (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. (25 pages). ISBN-13: 9780521847377
‘Discrimination, Equality and Community Cohesion’ in Policies for Engaged Citizens, T. Choudhry (ed.), New York: Open Society Institute, 2005, pp. 43-101. ISBN1891385429
‘Feminism, Multiculturalism and Minority Women’ in Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Alison Diduick and Katherine O’Donovan (eds.), Routledge: London, 2006, pp. 211-231. ISBN: 1904385427
‘A Mirror for Liberalism’ in Wissenchaftliche Abhandlungen und Reden zur Philosophie, Matthias Mahlmann and Hubert Rottleuthner (eds.), Dunker & Humboldt GmbH: Berlin, 2006, pp. 241-269. ISBN 9783428120956
‘British Anti-Discrimination Law’ in Handbuch Anti-Diskriminierungsrecht, M. Mahlmann and B.Rudolf (eds.), Germany: Baden-Baden, 2006, pp. 1-35. ISBN. 9783832914134
‘Extreme Speech and Liberalism’ in Extreme Speech and Democracy, in Ivan Hare (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2008

Teaching

Undergraduate

Anti-Discrimination Law
Jurisprudence & Legal Theory
European Law

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