Asifa Quraishi | |
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| Born | Asifa Bano Quraishi (1967-07-17)July 17, 1967 (age 57)[1] |
| Education | University of California-Berkeley (BA) University of California-Davis (JD) Columbia University (LLM) Harvard University (SJD) |
| Occupation | Professor |
Asifa Bano Quraishi[2] (aka Asifa Quraishi-Landes) (born July 17, 1967) is an American educator and legal scholar. She is a professor of law at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses in Islamic law and U.S. constitutional law. She has served as a law clerk in United States federal courts. Her recent publications address issues of Islamic constitutionalism, in the context of separation of legal authority as well as methodologies of textual interpretation. Quraishi has also written articles for news outlets likeThe Washington Post andMiddle East Eye addressing myths and issues associated with Islam.[3][4][5][6]
Quraishi is a founding board member of theNational Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), its sister organisation Muslim Advocates, based inSan Francisco, and American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA). She is also an associate of the Muslim Women’s League, and has served as President and board member of Muslim Women’s League.
Quraishi received aGuggenheim Fellowshipin 2012.[7]
She earned aBachelor of Arts degree from theUniversity of California-Berkeley in 1988 and aJuris Doctor degree from theUniversity of California Davis School of Law in 1992. She also earned aMaster of Laws degree fromColumbia Law School in 1998 and aDoctor of Juridical Science degree fromHarvard Law School in 2006.[8]
From 1993 to 1994, she served as a law clerk to District JudgeEdward Dean Price of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of California and from 1994 to 1997, she served as a death penalty law clerk for the Ninth Circuit of theUnited States Court of Appeals.[9]
She joined the faculty ofUniversity of Wisconsin Law School in 2004.[9] From 2004 to 2012, she was an assistant professor of law.[9] From 2012 to 2017, she was an associate professor of law.[9] Since 2017, she has served as a full professor of law.[9]
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