Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Asifa Quraishi-Landes is a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison She specializes in comparative Islamic and U.S. constitutional law, with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Recent publications include “Legislating Morality and Other Illusions about Islamic Government,” and “Healing a Wounded Islamic Constitutionalism: Sharia, Legal Pluralism, and Unlearning the Nation-State Paradigm. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Three Pillars Constitutionalism” in which she proposes a new model of Islamic constitutionalism for today’s Muslim-majority countries.

Professor Quraishi-Landes holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and other degrees from Columbia Law School, the University of California-Davis, and the University of California-Berkeley, and has worked as law clerk in the United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She 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. In the recent past she has served as the President of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), Co-Executive Director of Muslim Advocates, Executive Director of the Muslim Public Service Network, Chair of the Board of Trustees for Bayan Islamic Graduate School, and President and Board Member of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.