islawmix scholars have advanced degrees in American law (JD) and in the study of Islamic law (PhD), or the equivalent, and teach issues of contemporary Islamic law and society in American law schools. They have been recognized by their peers; by their publications; and by prestigious legal, academic, and other institutions for their timely scholarship on issues of Islamic law. They represent a diverse range of ideological and scholarly perspectives, experiences, and approaches.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law at the UCLA School of Law
Professor Abou El Fadl teaches in areas related to Islamic law and human rights. He is a recipient of the University of Oslo Human Rights Award and the Leo and Lisl Eitinger Prize in 2007, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in Islamic Law in 2005. He was previously appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, was a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch, and has served as a law clerk for Arizona Supreme Court Justice James Moeller. He is the author of 14 books and over 50 articles on various topics in Islam and Islamic law. He holds a BA from Yale University, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a PhD in Islamic law from Princeton University.
Anver Emon
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto School of Law
Professor Emon teaches in the areas of Islamic legal history, gender in Islamic law, and law and religion. He is a member of the boards of projects on Religion in the Public Sphere, the Center for Ethics, and Law in Action Within Schools at University of Toronto, and has received numerous awards for research on Islamic and Jewish law, including from the Wright Foundation and the Jackman Humanities Institute. His publications include a book on Islamic natural law theories and several articles; and he is the founding editor of Journal on Middle East Law and Governance. He received a BA from University of California at Berkeley, a JD from the UCLA School of Law, and MA from the University of TX at Austin, an LLM and JSD from Yale Law School, and a PhD from UCLA.
Mohammad Fadel
Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Toronto School of Law
Professor Fadel teaches in areas of Islamic and corporate law, and prior to joining the law faculty, practiced corporate finance and securities law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York for over a decade. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. He has published numerous articles on Islamic legal history and political theory. He completed a BA and PhD in Islamic law at University of Virginia and a PhD in Islamic law at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the New York Bar.
Sherman Jackson
Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan; Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
Professor Jackson specializes in Islamic law and theology as well as modern issues of Islam in America. Prior to joining the faculty at U. Michigan, he taught at Wayne State University, Indiana University, University of Texas at Austin, American University in Cairo, and Middlebury College; and he is slated to begin teaching at the University of Southern California in 2011. He has also received numerous fellowships, including the Michigan Humanities Award and the CASA Scholarship for study in Egypt. He is the author of 4 books and dozens of articles on Islam and Islamic law. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Clark Lombardi
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law
Professor Lombardi was named a Carnegie Scholar for Islamic law in 2006. He teaches in the areas of Islamic law, constitutional law, comparative law, and development law. Prior to joining the law faculty, he clerked for Judge Samuel A. Alito, then on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced commercial law with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been involved in projects advising on constitutional or legal reform in the Muslim world, including Iraq and Afghanistan. He has lived, worked or studied in Indonesia, Yemen, Egypt, and Afghanistan. He received a BA from Princeton University, and an MA, JD, and PhD from Columbia University.
Joseph Lowry
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Professor Lowry is a specialist in Islamic law, Arabic literature, and classical Islamic thought. He has published a book and several articles on Islamic law. Before joining the faculty, he practiced law at the firm of Patton, Boggs, LLP in Washington DC, where he assisted in the representation of several Arab states. He received his BA, JD, MA, and PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Chibli Mallat
Presidential Professor of Law and Professor of Middle Eastern Law and Politics at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; EU Jean Monnet Chair of Law at Saint Joseph’s University in Lebanon; Harvard Law School (Visiting, Spring 2011); Organizing Committee, Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar
Professor Mallat teaches Middle Eastern law, EU law, constitutional law, and courses on the law and politics of the Middle East. Prior to joining the law faculty at University of Utah, he has served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Global Justice Project: Iraq and has held research and teaching positions at Princeton University, Yale Law School, the University of Virginia Law School, the Library of Congress, University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, and elsewhere. As a legal practitioner, he litigated several international criminal law cases. He has published 6 books and numerous scholarly articles, and is a frequent op-ed contributor to newspapers ranging from the Nahar (Lebanon) to the New York Times. He received his LLB from St. Joseph’s University in Beirut, an LLM from Georgetown University, and a PhD in Islamic Law from the University of London.
Asifa Quraishi
Assistant Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin Law School
Professor Quraishi is a specialist in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law. She was named a 2009 Carnegie Scholar for Islamic law, and has served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has also served on the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, the Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and as advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. She is currently on the governing boards of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), Muslim Advocates, the Journal of Law and Religion, and the Association of American Law Schools Section on Islamic Law. She has published two edited books, and several articles on Islamic law, comparative legal theory, and Muslim family law in United States courts. She holds a BA from University of California at Berkeley, a JD from the University of California at Davis, an LLM from Columbia University Law School, and an SJD in Islamic law from Harvard Law School.
David Powers
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cornell University; Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School
Professor Powers is a specialist in Islamic law and history and law and on the application of Islamic law in Muslim societies. He is a 2007 Carnegie Scholar for research on Islamic law and is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities. He has authored 3 books and numerous articles on Islamic law and history. He is founding editor of the Journal Islamic Law and Society and is Sectional Editor (Islamic Law) of the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. He received a BA from Yale University and a PhD in Islamic law from Princeton University.
Intisar Rabb
Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College Law School and Faculty Affiliate in Research at Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program
Professor Rabb is a specialist in advanced constitutional law, criminal law, and comparative and Islamic law. She is a 2010 Carnegie Scholar for research on contemporary Islamic law. She has served as a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, with members of the bench and bar in the U.K. as a Temple Bar Scholar through the American Inns of Court, and worked with the Connecticut Public Defenders Capital Punishment Unit. She currently serves as the boards of the Yale Law School Association, the Princeton Graduate School Leadership Council, and the Muslim Public Service Program, and is active in the Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar. Rabb received a BA from Georgetown University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MA and PhD in Islamic Law at Princeton University. She is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars.
Kristen Stilt
Associated Professor of Law and History at Northwestern Law School and Northwestern University (Department of History)
Professor Stilt is a specialist in Islamic law’s classical formulations and modern interpretations. She is a 2008 Carnegie Scholar for research on Islamic law. She has also received grants from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to joining the law faculty, she worked for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in the Washington, D.C. and Moscow offices. She is the author of a forthcoming book and numerous scholarly articles on Islamic law. She received a BA and JD from The University of Texas School of Law, and a PhD in Islamic legal history from Harvard University.