Prof. Hassan S. Khalilieh is a senior lecturer in the departments of Maritime Civilizations and Inter-disciplinary Studies. He is a specialist in medieval Islamic admiralty and maritime law, and international law of the sea.  He is the author of Islamic Maritime Law: An Introduction (Brill, 1998) and Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean (ca. 800-1050): The Kitāb Akriyat al-Sufun vis-à-vis the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos (Brill, 2006).  He has recently completed a manuscript titled: The Free Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights under Islamic Customary Law of the Sea.

E-mail: khalilih@research.haifa.ac.il