AMR SHALAKANY
78 Nile Avenue
Giza 12311, Egypt
(+20.12) 22.47.45.45
shalakany@aucegypt.edu
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, Department of Law, Cairo, Egypt
(2004 – Present) Associate Professor of Law; Member, Institute of Women & Gender Studies.
Courses: Comparative Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; Islamic Law and Religion; Islamic
Law Reform; Modern Egyptian Legal History; Egyptian Law & Society; Law, Media, and the
Arts; Law and the Visual Arts; Modern Political Theory; International Commercial Arbitration.
(2014-Present) Founding Director, Law & Society Research Unit.
(2004-2009) Founding Director, LLM Degree Program.
CAIRO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LAW, Cairo, Egypt
(2004 – 2013) Assistant Professor. Courses: Introduction to the American Legal System;
Contracts; Torts; Legal Practice.
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, London, UK
(Fall 2013) Shimizu Visiting Professor of Law.
Public Lectures: Islamic Law Reform; Law and Revolution in the Arab Spring.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Religious Studies Providence, RA
(Spring 2013) Aga Khan Distinguished Visiting Professor of Islamic Humanities.
Visiting Faculty, Watson Institute of International Studies.
Courses: Critical Approaches to Islamic Law Reform.
UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA, Globalization of Law PhD Program, Perugia, Italy
(Summer 2012) Visiting Professor. Courses: Islamic Law.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA
(Winter 2006) Nomura Visiting Assistant Professor of International Financial Systems. Courses:
International Commercial Arbitration.
(Winter 2005) Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Assistant Professor. Courses: Comparative Law.
(Fall 2003 – Spring 2004) Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Assistant Professor. Courses:
Comparative Law.
(Fall 2002 – Spring 2003) Lecturer on Law. Courses: Comparative Law; Islamic Law Reform.
BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY LAW INSTITUTE, Birzeit, Palestine
(Fall 2000 – Spring 2002) Visiting Lecturer. Courses: Gender, Law & Development; Islamic
Law; Political Theory; Democracy and Human Rights in the Arab World.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
RESTLESS JURISTS COMPARED. THE CRITIQUE AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CONTRACT LAW
THEORY IN THE US, FRANCE AND EGYPT, 1900 – 1942. Forthcoming: BRILL Academic
Publishers, History of Private Law Series, Spring 2015.
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RISE AND FALL OF THE EGYPTIAN LEGAL ELITE: 1805 – 2005 (IZDIHĀR WA-INHIYĀR ALNOKHBA AL-QĀNŪNEYA AL-MISRIYA: 1805 – 2005), Dar Al-Shorouk Press: 2013, (Carnegie
Scholar Book Grant) [In Arabic].
PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN PALESTINIAN AND U.S. LAW (ALTARĀFU‘ ‘AN AL-ṢALIḤ AL-‘AM: DIRĀSA MŪQĀRANA FĪ AL-QĀNŪN AL-FILASTĪNI WALAMRĪKI), Birzeit University Publications: 2004, [in Arabic].
Edited Volumes
EGYPTIAN LAW & SOCIETY. To be submitted for publication in Arabic and English: Summer
2016. (Research/Writing Grant: Ford Foundation/Open Society Foundation).
JUDGES AND REVOLUTION: LANDMARK DECISIONS OF THE EGYPTIAN STATE COUNCIL (with
Samir Abdel-Malak); 2 VOLS. To be submitted for publication in Arabic and English: Summer
2015. (Conference/Book Grant: Ford Foundation/Open Society Foundation).
NEW APPROACHES TO ISLAMIC LAW HISTORY: LATE MAMLŪK TO EARLY MODERN EGYPT (with
Khaled Fahmy). Forthcoming: AUC Press; Arabic edition: SHERIF YOUNIS, TRN., Dar AlShourouk Press, 2015. (Conference/Book Grant: Ford Foundation).
Articles
Arab Spring (with Asli Bali), OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Forthcoming:
Spring 2015
The day the graffiti died, 2 LONDON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 357 (2014)
Islamic Law and Liberal Legality in Modern Egyptian Legal Thought, 3 MAJALLAT TABAYYUN
LIL-DIRASAT AL-FIKRIYA WAL-THAQAFIYA 2013, AZMY BESHARA, ED [In Arabic]
The Army and the National Budget in the 1882 Constitution, 1 MAJALLAT AL-SIYASAT ALTASHRI’YYA 2012 [In Arabic]
Comparative Law: Problems and Prospects, 26 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL LAW
REVIEW, 4 (2011)
Islamic Legal Histories, 1 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC LAW 3 (2008)
On a Certain Queer Discomfort with Orientalism, 101 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2007).
The Closeted Comparative Lawyer: On How to Pass for Human-Rights-Material, 20 HARVARD
HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL 41 (2007).
I heard it all before: Egyptian Tales of Law & Development, 27 THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY 833
(2006).
Scenes from a Ramallah Law School, 31 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL INFORMATION 330
(2003).
Privatizing Jerusalem, or an Investigation into the City’s Future Legal Stakes, 15 LEIDEN
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 431 (2002).
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Violent Jurisdictions: on the Fragmentation of Space under Oslo, ADALAH’S REVIEW (2002) [in
English, Arabic & Hebrew].
The Origins of Comparative Law in the Arab World, or how sometimes losing your Asalah can
be Good for you, in ANNELISE RILES, ED., RETHINKING THE MASTERS OF COMPARATIVE LAW
(Hart Publishing: 2001).
Between Identity and Redistribution: Sanhuri, Genealogy and the Will to Islamise, 8 ISLAMIC
LAW & SOCIETY JOURNAL 201 (2001).
Arbitration and the Third World: Bias under the Scepter of Neo-Liberalism, 41 HARVARD
INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 419 (2000).
Book Review: Lillich, Richard B. and Charles N. Brower (eds). International Arbitration in the
21st Century: Towards ‘Judicialisation’ and Uniformity? New York: Transnational Publishers,
1994, 3 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 574 (1998).
Book Chapters
Introduction; Egyptian Law and Religion:, in AMR SHALAKANY, ED., EGYPTIAN LAW &
SOCIETY. To be submitted for publication in Arabic and English: Summer 2016.
(Research/Writing Grant: Open Society Foundation).
The Canonization of Islamic Law in Comparative Legal Studies, in IGNACIO DE LA RASILLA Y
DEL MORAL, ED., NEW APPROACHES TO THE ISLAMIC HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Forthcoming: BRILL Islam and International Law Series, 2016.
Trouble with Arbitration: A Review of Post-Revolution Egyptian Case Law, in C.L. LIM, ED.,
ALTERNATIVE VISIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT: ESSAYS IN
HONOUR OF M. SORNARAJAH. Forthcoming: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Islamic Law and Liberal Legality, in ANTHONY CHASE, ED., HANDBOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN
THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. Forthcoming: Routledge Spring 2016.
Adjudicating Corruption in Investment Disputes, in SAMIR ABDEL-MALAK & AMR SHALAKANY,
EDS., JUDGES AND REVOLUTION: LANDMARK DECISIONS OF THE EGYPTIAN STATE COUNCIL; 2
VOLS. To be submitted for publication in Arabic and English: Fall 2015. (Conference/Book
Grant: Ford Foundation).
Bring the System Down! Depictions of Constitutional Politics in Egyptian Street Art, in RAINER
GROTE & TILMAN RODER, EDS., CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AFTER THE ARAB SPRING: HOPES,
ISSUES AND CHALLENGES. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Introduction to Modern Egyptian Legal History (with Khaled Fahmy); The Secular Time-Hinge
in Islamic Law History, in KHALED FAHMY & AMR SHALAKANY, EDS., NEW APPROACHES TO
ISLAMIC LAW HISTORY: LATE MAMLŪK TO EARLY MODERN EGYPT. Forthcoming: AUC Press;
Arabic edition: Dar Al-Shourouk Press, 2015.
Professional Consultations / Reports
MEMORANDUM: A WORLD CLASS LAW SCHOOL IN QATAR (Prepared for the Qatar
Foundation)
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EGYPTIAN CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH EUROPEAN UNION
DIRECTIVES (Commissioned by the Egyptian Consumer Protection Agency in
cooperation with the EU Mission in Egypt).
Select Short Articles -- English
Pretty Names and Ugly Things, JADALIYYA, July 31, 2013
We are All Liberals, MIDAN MISR, July, 2012
Political Statements at the Cairo Criminal Court, AHRAM ONLINE, June 18, 2012.
Take me to the Revolution, NEW YORK TIMES, OPINIONATOR ONLINE COMMENTARY, blog
posting, February 9, 2011.
Good Cheer and Fear on Departure Friday, NEW YORK TIMES, OPINIONATOR ONLINE
COMMENTARY, blog posting, February 4, 2011.
A Week in Egypt's Twilight Zone, NEW YORK TIMES, OPINIONATOR ONLINE COMMENTARY, blog
posting, February 3, 2011.
Tell Everyone: Egypt's Revolution is Sweet and Peaceful, THE GUARDIAN, January 30, 2011.
Borg el-Amal/Tower of Hope, Accompanying Arabic/English text on “Borg El-Amal,” an in-situ
construction and sound installation by Lara Baladi, Grand Prize, 11th Cairo International Biennale
(January 2009).
The Trouble with Sanhuri, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 824, 14 – 20 December 2006
Theater of the Absurd, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 748, 23 – 29 June 2005
Speaking in Tongues, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 731, 24 February – 2 March 2005
Welcome to the Future, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 652, 21 – 27 August 2003
Escaping Fireworks, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 646, 10 – 16 July, 2003
Fitting in, as Arabs, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 603, 12 – 18 September, 2002
Scenes of Censorship, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 598, 8 – 14 August 2002
This Easter in Jerusalem, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 584, 2-8 May 2002
Diary of an Egyptian in Ramallah, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 580, 4-10 April 2002
Accents of Hope and Despair, AL-AHRAM WEEKLY, Issue No. 539, 21 – 27 June 2001
Select Short Articles -- Arabic
‘An al-Marḥala al-Intiqalīyya al-Thanīya… Hiya al-Ṭawari’ Izan?, AL-SHOROUK, July 24, 2013.
‘An al-Khalfiyyāt al-Sha‘biyya Li al-Inqilabāt al-‘Askariya, AL-SHOROUK, July 6, 2013.
Ḥāmīha Ḥarāmīha, JADALIYYA, July 3, 2013.
Hal Kan Al-Qanūn fi Ajāza? 1954-1970, AL-SHOROUK, October 24, 2012.
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Moswadet Al-Dustūr wa Makasib al-Haraka al-Nisaʾia, AL-SHOROUK, October 20, 2012.
Al-Qanūn wal-Thawra: Klakīt Thani Marra, AL-SHOROUK, October 17, 2012.
Moshkilaty mʿa Al-Sanūri, AL-SHOROUK, October 10, 2012.
Maṭār Shafīq wa Dawlat al-Liwaʾat, AL-SHOROUK, August 20, 2012.
Al-Dostour Waḥdaho La Yakfī, AL-SHOROUK, August 19, 2012.
Al-Shaʿb Yūrīd Iʿdam al-Moḥāmīn, AL-SHOROUK, July 15, 2012.
Al-Bayanāt al-Siyāsiyya li-Maḥkamat al-Gināyāt, AL-SHOROUK, July 6, 2012.
Jamīʿona Librāliyyūn, MIDAN MISR, July, 2012.
ʿAn al-Tahdīd bi-Moqāṭaʿat al-Intikhābāt, AL-SHOROUK, November 27, 2011.
Select Short Articles -- Turkish
Ihvan artık benim kardeşim değil, RADIKAL, April 2, 2011.
Kutlama Zamanı, RADIKAL, February 12, 2011.
Mısır ve Türkiye ayrı trenlerde, RADIKAL, February 6, 2011.
Mısır'da her şey yeni başlıyor, RADIKAL, February 5, 2011.
Mısır'dan Özkök'e yanıt, RADIKAL, February 4, 2011.
Bizi bize kırdırdı, RADIKAL, February 3, 2011.
Tahrir zaferi, RADIKAL, February 2, 2011.
Mübarek'e son ugarı günü, RADIKAL, February 1, 2011.
Umudumuz Türkiye, RADIKAL, January 31, 2011.
EDUCATION
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA
S.J.D., 2000; LL.M. 1996.
Addison Brown Prize for Best Thesis in Private International Law.
CAIRO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LAW, Cairo, Egypt
Diplôme d’études approfondies (DES) in Private and Comparative Law, 1995.
DES Prize for First Ranking Student in a class of 67 students.
Diplôme d’études approfondies (DES) in International Trade and Investment Law, 1994.
DES Prize for First Ranking Student in a class of 45 students.
Licence en droit, 1993.
Licence en droit Prize for First Ranking Student in a class of 2806 students, 1993.
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
STUDIO EMAD EL-DIN FOR THE INDEPENDENT ARTS, Cairo, Egypt
Advisory Board Member: 2014 – Present.
DOHA INST. FOR ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
Founding Advisory Committee Member: 2012 – 2013.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY, London, UK
International Board Member: 2012 – Present.
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Paris, France
Associate Member: 2011 – Present.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JOURNAL, Tehran, Iran
International Board Member: 2011 – Present.
MOSIREEN NON-PROFIT MEDIA COOPERATIVE, Cairo, Egypt
Founding Advisory Board Member: 2011 – Present.
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR POLICE REFORM, Cairo, Egypt
Founding member and of counsel on security sector reform: 2011 – Present.
SAHAFET WELAD EL BALAD COMMUNITY JOURNALISM, Cairo, Egypt
Founding Board Member: 2011-Present.
HARVARD INST. OF GLOBAL LAW & POLICY, Cambridge, MA
Academic Board Member: 2010 – Present.
EGYPTIAN INITIATIVE FOR PERSONAL RIGHTS, Cairo, Egypt
Advisory Board Member: 2004 – 2013.
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, New York, NY
Admitted October 1999 – Present.
EGYPTIAN LAWYERS SYNDICATE, Cairo, Egypt
Admitted Sept 1993 (Acting membership deferred to Full Professor status).
OTHER
Research Positions / Grants
LAW & SOCIETY RESEARCH UNIT, AUC, Cairo, Egypt
(2014 – Present) Principal Investigator: Legal Reform in Post-Revolution Egypt.
THE FORD FOUNDATION, Cairo, Egypt
Research Grant, 2014 – 2015; topic: “Judges and Revolution: Landmark Decisions of the
Egyptian State Council.”
HARVARD INST. OF GLOBAL LAW & POLICY, Cambridge, MA
Research Grant, 2014 – 2015; topic: “Law and the Arts.”
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OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION, New York, USA
Grant recipient: Manshourat Qanouneya: Egyptian Law, Media & Society, 2013-2015.
THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, New York, USA
Carnegie Scholar, 2008 – 2013; topic: “The Redefinition of Sharīʿa in Modern Egyptian Legal
Thought: 1798 – Present.”
THE FORD FOUNDATION, Cairo, Egypt
Conference/Book-Editing Grant, 2009 – 2012; topic: “New Approaches to Modern Egyptian
Legal History: Late Ottoman Period to the Present.”
CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, ITHACA, NY
Clark Initiative Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Fall 2009.
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL, NEW YORK, NY
Program on Law, Gender & Sexuality: Visiting Scholar, Summer 2009.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA
Human Rights Program: Visiting Fellow, 2002-03 .
THE FORD FOUNDATION, Cairo, Egypt
Individual Grant Recipient (to establish Legal Aid Clinic, Birzeit University), 2000-02.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, MA
Senior Fellow, 1997 – 1998.
Practice
NATIONAL COMMUNITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND LAW, Cairo, Egypt
(2013 – Present) Of Counsel: Policy Reform Initiative.
EGYPTIAN CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY, Cairo, Egypt
(2012 – Present) Lead Egyptian legal expert on twinning the regulatory framework for consumer
protection between the European Union and Egypt.
PALESTINIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Ramallah, Palestine
(2012) Consultant: Hebron Law School Accreditation.
HISHAM MUBARAK CENTER FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE, Cairo, Egypt
(2011 – 2013) Of Counsel: Policy Reform Initiative.
PLO NEGOTIATIONS AFFAIRS DEPT, Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories
(2000 – 2002) Legal Advisor in Permanent Status Peace Negotiations with the State of Israel.
Responsible for Jerusalem and Dispute Settlement Files.
BAKER & MCKENZIE, London, UK
(1999 – 2000) Associate: International Securities Practice Group.
ICC INTERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBITRATION, Paris, France
(Jan. – April 1999) Internship: Anglo-American Practice Group.
BAKER & MCKENZIE, Chicago, Il; Cairo, Egypt
(June – August 1997) Summer Associate: Europe & Middle East Practice Group.
CURTIS, MALLET-PREVOST, COLT & MOSLE, New York, NY
(June – August 1996) Summer Associate: Corporate International Dept.
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CAIRO REGIONAL CENTRE FOR INT’L COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION, Cairo,
Egypt
(1994 – 1995) Legal Counsel: International Trade and Investment Disputes.
ZAKI HASHEM & ASSOCAITES, Cairo, Egypt
(1993- 1995) Attorney at Law: Corporate Division.
SELECT ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
American University in Cairo, Tarir Square Campus, Cairo, Egypt. Law & Society Lecture
Series, September 2014. Topic: Commentator for Dr Ziad Bahaa El Din on “Current Challenges
for Economic Legislation in Egypt."
Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. Arab Society of Constitutional Law First Annual
Conference, October 2014. Topic: “Effectiveness of Constitutional Provisions in Practice.”
Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy, Cambridge, MA, May 2014. Panel Organizer and
Moderator (with Chantal Thomas) Topic: “Law, Art and Revolution.”
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 2014. Humanities Institute Guest Lecture. Topic:
“Islamic Law Reform.”
American University in Cairo, Tarir Square Campus, Cairo, Egypt. Law & Society Lecture
Series, September 2014. Topic: Panel moderator on “Celebrating Ahmed Seif."
American University in Cairo, Downtown Cairo, Egypt. Tahrir Dialogue Series, January 2014.
Topic: Panel moderator on “The Constitutional Amendments of 2014."
Université Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. Colloque: Quel avenir pour le bien vivre ensemble au
Moyen Orient, November 2013. Topic: “Minority Rights and Islamic Law Reform.”
Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria. Session 508: Gettting Transition Right: A Rights
Based Approach to Diversity and Inclusivity, November 2013. Topic: “Assessing Egypt’s Two
Legal Transitions.”
London School of Economics, London, UK; Private Law Seminar Lecture, Shimizu Public
Lecture, and Interview with Professor Susan Franks, October 2013. Topics: Islamic Law
Reform; Law, Art & Revolution.
International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, Syracuse , Italy; May 2013.
Participant in Global Standards Project.
Brown University, Providence, RI, May 2013. Conference organizer (with Chantal Thomas).
Topic: “Law, Art and Revolution.”
Brown University, Providence, RI, April 2013. Watson Institute Lecture: Topic: “First Thing we
do let’s kill all the lawyers: Liberalism and Revolution in Modern Egypt.”
Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy, Doha Workshop, Qatar; January 2013 two lectures,
Sanhrui revolution, and Islamic law history
Shorouk Bookstore Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt; Book Launch talk with Khaled Fahmy, January 2013.
Topic: “Rise and Fall of Egypt’s Modern Legal Elite.”
American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt. Tahrir Dialogue Series, December 2012.
Topic: “Understanding the Current Constitutional Crisis."
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Translation Studies Center, American University in Cairo; Interdisciplinary Translation Lecture
Series, October 2012. Topic: “Translating Shari’a."
Department of History, American University in Cairo; Isqat al-Nizam Lecture Series, October
2012. Topic: “Egypt: Law and the July Regime."
Muwatin, The Palestine Institute for the Study of Democracy, Ramallah, Palestine; 18 th Annual
Conference: Arab Revolutions Two Tears On, September 2012. Topic: “Egypt: Law and the July
Regime."
Human Rights Watch, Cairo, Egypt; Middle East and North Africa Division, Annual Retreat,
September 2012. Topic: “Security Sector Reform."
The People’s Front for Democracy, Cairo, Egypt; Constitution Defense Campaign Launch,
September 2012. Topic: “Current Constitutional Drafts."
Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut, Lebanon; Workshop on Arab Security Sector Reform, June
2012. Topic: “The Reform of Egyptian Police Law."
Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey; Conference on the Arab Spring, May 2012. Topic: “Law
and Revolution in Modern Egypt."
Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey; Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop 2012: New Forms of
Social Protest, May 2012. Topic: “The Curious Absence of Microphones on January 25th,
2011."
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY; Clarke Program in Law and Culture Conference on Law,
Revolution and Reform in the Arab World, Cornell Club, New York, NY, April 2012. Topic:
“Liberal Legality and Counter-Revolution.”
Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt; D-CAF Arts Festival, with Khaled Hourani,
Director, International Academy of Art, Palestine, April 2012. Topic: “Picasso in Palestine.”
Harvard Law School Association of Arabia Inaugural Conference, Doha, Qatar; 125th Celebration
of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association, April, 2012. Topic: “Law and Revolution
Revisited.”
Public Interest Law Network, Tunis, Tunisia; Forum on Public Interest in the Middle East and
North Africa, March 2012. Topic: “Strategic Litigation in Post-Revolution Egypt.”
Institut de recherche et débat sur la gouvernance, Paris, France; International Meeting:
Perspectives from North Africa, Tunis, Tunisia, March 2012. Topic: “Constitutions and
Constitutionalism.”
American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt; Election monitor training session with the Egyptian
Organization for Human Rights, March, 2012. Topic: “Judicial Electoral Supervision.”
Hisham Mubarak Law Center, Cairo, Egypt; The Role of the Constitution in the Transition to
Democracy in Egypt, January, 2012. Topic: “Why Administrative Law?”
Sciences Po, Paris, France; Conference on Revolution and Transition in Egypt, CEDEJ, Cairo,
Egypt, January 2012. Topic: “Islamic Law and Politics.”
Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt; Hydrarchy Symposium, January 2012. Topic:
“Rethinking Anti-Normalization and Palestine Solidarity Today.”
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American University in Cairo, History Department Brown Bag Talk, with Dr Sherene Seiqaly,
November 2011. Topic: “Palestine Solidarity After Revolution: The Case of Egypt."
Egyptian National Center for Translation, Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt; The Turkish
Constitution Panel, with Dr Amr Shobaky and Judge Tahani Gebaly, July 2011. Topic: “The
Second Republic in Egypt and Turkey."
Humboldt University Law School, Berlin, Germany; Law and Religion Colloquium, May 2011.
Topic: “Critical Approaches to Islamic Law History."
Partners in Development, Cairo, Egypt; Plenary on Law and Development, April 2011. Topic:
“Transition to Democracy from a Comparative Law Perspective."
Harvard Kennedy School Annual Dubai Initiative Conference, Cambridge, MA; Plenary on
"Between Order and Liberalization: The Rule of Law and Politics in the Arab World," April
2011. Topic: “The Rule of Law in Post-Revolutionary Egypt."
Sawy Cultural Wheel Lecture Series, Cairo, Egypt; Debate on Constitutional Reform with Dr
Kamal Abul Magd and Dr Hossam Eisa, March 2011. Topic: “Pro and Against Arguments to
Amending the 1971 Constitution.”
American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt; Election monitor training session with the Egyptian
Organization for Human Rights, March, 2011. Topic: “Judicial Electoral Supervision.”
Imbaba People's Revolutionary Committee, Cairo, Egypt; Popular Conference on Constitutional
Reform, March 2011. Topic: “Amending the 1971 Constitution.”
Centre d'études et documentation économiques, politiques et sociales, Cairo, Egypt; Regular
Series, November 2010. "Secularism in Islamic Law History: The Case of Egypt."
Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, Cairo, Egypt.; Winter School Keynote Lecture, October
2010. Topic: “Legal Reform in Contemporary Egyptian Politics.”
XVIII International Congress of Comparative Law, Washington, D.C.; Closing Plenary:
Comparative law: Problems and Prospects, August 2010. Topic: “Reconsidering Islamic Law as
a Field of Comparative Legal Studies.”
Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.; Private Law Theory: A Workshop, August 2010.
Topic: “On the Continued Relevance of the Public/Private Distinction.”
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA; LAMBDA conference on Sexual Minorities and
International Law, April 2010. Topic: “Sexual Minorities and Criminal Law in Egypt.”
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY; Clark Initiative Conference on New Directions of Research on
Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, September 2009. Topic: “Law and
Development in the Islamic World.”
The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt; AUC/NYU Conference on New Approaches to
Egyptian Legal History: Late Ottoman Period to the Present, June 2009. Topic: “The
Transformation of Modern Egyptian Legal Consciousness OR 1883 Reconsidered.”
The American University in Cairo, Egypt; Margaret Mead Film Festival, October 2008. Topic:
“Law and Sexuality.”
Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies, USA. Summer Institute on Global
Governance, June 2008. Topic: “Legal Origins Scholarship in Comparative Corporate
Governance: Endurance of the Civil/Common Law Binary.”
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The University of California Berkeley, School of Law, USA; Journal of Middle East and Islamic
Law Speaker Series, April 2008. Topic: “Islamic Legal Histories.”
New York University, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, USA; Contemporary Arts in
the Middle East, April 2008. Topic: “Law and the Arts in Egypt.”
Yale University, School of Law, USA; Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, January 2008.
Topic: “The Moral Imperative in the Middle East.”
The University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy; Conference on The Construction of Legal Traditions,
November 2007. Topic: “Islamic Law Historiography.”
European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School; Symposium on Comparative Law in Latin
America and Beyond; May 2007. Topic: “The Impact of European Anti-formalist Legal thought
on Islamic Law Reform in Egypt.”
American Society of International Law, 101st Annual Meeting; March 2007. Topic: “On a
Certain Queer Discomfort with Orientalism.”
Radcliff Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University; December 2006. Topic: “Of Tourists
and Terrorists: The Governance of Political Violence in Egypt, 1981 – Present.”
The American University in Cairo, Cynthia Nelson Center for Gender and Women’s Studies;
Sexual Harassment Forum, December 2006. Topic: “Comparing Sexual Harassment Law: The
US, France and Egypt.”
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at
Austin, School of Law; October 2006. Topic: “Comparative Law as Archeology: Sodomy,
Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist.”
Arab Women’s Legal Network/AUC Law Department, Workshop on Legal Education for
Women in Arab Academia; November 2006. Topic: “Modernizing Egyptian Legal Education:
The Case of Cairo University Faculty of Law.”
New York University Kevorkian Center for Middle East Studies; October 2006. Topic:
“Comparative Law as Archeology: Sodomy, Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist.”
The American University in Cairo, “Teach-In” on Judicial Independence in Egypt; May 2006.
Topic: “The Modern History of Egyptian Judges, 1883 – Present.”
The American University in Cairo, Cairo Papers Conference on Law and Development Today;
May 2006. Topic: “Egyptian Tales of Law and Development.”
Yale Law School, Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, New Haven, Connecticut; January 2006.
Topic: “On the Rise and Fall of the Egyptian Legal Elite, 1883 – Present.”
International Center for Transitional Justice, New York/NY & Bellagio/Italy, March 2005.
Topic: “Islamic Law and Feminist Legal Reform in Egypt.”
The Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law; Hamburg, Germany;
Conference on: The Shari‘a in the Afghan Constitution and its Implications for the Legal Order;
February 2004. Topic: “Islamic Law, Secularism and Legal Hybridity in Egyptian Civil Law.”
Yale Law School, Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, Rome, Italy; January 2004. Topic: “The
Governance of Sexual Deviance under Islamic Law.”
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Northeastern Law School; Progressive Lawyering Project Inaugural Conference; November 2003.
Moderator, Panel, “The Body Trade.” Topic: “A Critical Perspective on International Trafficking
Law.”
Columbia University, Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights;
April 2003. Topic: “The Queen Boat 52 Case from a Comparative Law Perspective.”
City University of New York, Graduate Center; Symposium on Law and Order in Egypt; March
2003. Topic: “Sexual Rites/Human Rights: Towards a Postcolonial Agenda”
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC; November 2002. Topic:
“Comparative Law and Islamic Law Reform in Egypt.”
Hague Academy of International Law/Harvard European Law Research Center; Workshop of
New Scholarship in International Public and Private Law; July 2000. Topic: “Third World
Critiques of International Commercial Arbitration.”
Harvard International Law Journal; Symposium on International Law and the Developing World:
A Millennial Analysis; February 2000. Topic: “Arbitration and the Third World.”
Harvard Law School; European Law Research Center Spring Colloquium; April 1999.
Topic: “Sanhuri, Anti-formalism and Comparative Law in Egypt.”
Harvard Law School; Conference on New Approaches to International Law; April 1997. Topic:
“New Approaches to Comparative Law.”
LANGUAGES
Fluent Arabic, English and French, beginner Hebrew and Turkish.
PERSONAL
Dual citizen: Egypt; United States of America
Born: August 9, 1973
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