ASIFA
QURAISHI-LANDES
Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Constitutional and Islamic Law expert Asifa Quraishi-Landes has advised MPAC on a range of issues pertaining to U.S. rule of law and civil rights. Currently a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her work dispels the misconceptions that Islamic law and American Constitutional Theory, or feminist ideals, are mutually exclusive. She is currently President of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), and serves on the governing board of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Islamic Law. She has been an outspoken advocate on issues of civil rights, freedom of religion and what is afforded to religious minorities.
“There’s a fear that if sharia is important to me as an American Muslim, then that is somehow threatening or incompatible with my following of American law. And that’s just not true. I agree with the constitutional structure that we have in the United States, and nearly every American Muslim you ask would say the same thing.”
Professor Quraishi-Landes holds degrees from Columbia Law School, the University of California - Davis, the University of California - Berkeley, and a doctorate from Harvard Law School. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, has served as a Public Delegate on the United States Delegation to the United Nations 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 Task Force on Religion & Public Life.
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