{"id":2491,"date":"2020-04-15T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/?page_id=2491"},"modified":"2020-04-15T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:39:43","slug":"asifa-quraishi-landes-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/resources\/articles\/contributing-authors\/asifa-quraishi-landes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asifa Quraishi-Landes"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Asifa\n\t\t\t

Asifa Quraishi-Landes<\/h2>\t\t\t\n\t
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Asifa Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law. She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and other degrees from Columbia Law School, the University of California at Davis, and the University of California at Berkeley, and has served as law clerk in the United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.\n

She has served as a Public Delegate on the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (2010), 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 Force on Religion & Public Life. She is currently on the governing board of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), Muslim Advocates, the Journal of Law and religion, and the Association of American Law Schools\u2019 Section on Islamic Law. She is an affiliate of the Muslim Women\u2019s League, past President and Board Member of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, a Fellow with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and a member of the \u201cOpinion Leaders Network\u201d for the British Council\u2019s \u201cOur Shared Future\u201d project.<\/p>\n

Her recent publications include articles on comparative legal theory and Islamic law. Her latest publications are \u201cThe Separation of Powers in the Tradition of Muslim Governments,\u201d a chapter in Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity, edited by Tilmann Roder, Rainer Grote & Katrin Geenen, ed.s) (Oxford University Press, December 2011), and \u201cWhat if Sharia Weren\u2019t the Enemy: Re-Thinking International Women\u2019s Rights Activism and Islamic Law\u201d (Columbia Journal of Gender & the Law, Vol. 20, 2011).<\/p>\n

Also a Carnegie Fellow, she is currently working on a Carnegie Foundation-funded project titled, \u201cIslamic Constitutionalism for the 21st Century: Not Theocratic. Not Secular. Not Impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Contributing Authors\n\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asifa Quraishi-Landes Asifa Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law. She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and other degrees from Columbia Law School, the University of California at Davis, and the University of California at Berkeley, and has served as law clerk in the United State Court of Appeals for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2491\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karamah.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}