Azizah Y. al-Hibri
Professor of Law
Biographical Profile
CV
Office: Room 209
aalhibri@richmond.edu
Founder & President, KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
Washington, D.C.
Tel. (202) 234-7302/03
Fax (202) 234-7304
Courses Taught: Corporations; Securities Regulation; Islamic Jurisprudence; Feminist Legal Theory
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School (1985)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Philosophy) (1975)
B.A., American University of Beirut (Philosophy) (1966)
Professional Experience
School of Law, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
On leave for Fall 2005 semester.
Professor, July, 1998- present;
Associate Professor, June 1992-98;
Recipient of the George E. Allen Chair in Law, 1996-97
Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, N.Y.
Associate, 1987-92
Sullivan & Cromwell , New York, N.Y.
Associate, 1986-87
Harvard Divinity School and Center for the Study of World Religions
Visiting Scholar, 1985
Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y.
Summer Associate, 1984
United States District Court
Summer Intern for Judge Louis H. Pollak, 1983
United States District Court
Summer Intern for Judge William F. Hall, Jr., 1983
Washington University in St. Louis,
Visiting Associate Professor (Philosophy), 1981-82
Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor (Philosophy), 1975-1983
Recent & Featured Publications
Sex, Marriage and Family in World Religions (Working Title). Co-editor of Islamic section. Don Browning, Christian Green and John Witte eds. (Columbia University Press, 2006).
"The Nature of the Islamic Marriage: Sacramental, Covenantal, or Contractual," in Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, John Witte and Eliza Ellison, eds., 2005)
"Redefining Muslim Women's Roles in the Next Century," in Democracy and the Rule of Law, Norman Dorsen and Prosser Gifford, eds. (Congressional Quarterly, 2001).
"An Islamic Perspective on Domestic Violence," 27 Fordham International Law Journal 195 (December 2003).
"Islamic and American Constitutional Law: Borrowing Possibilities or a History of Borrowing?" 1 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 492 (1999).
"Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World/Minority Women?" in Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Susan Okin, ed., 41-46 (Princeton University Press, 1999)
"Legal Reform: Reviving Human Rights in the Muslim World," 20 Harvard International Review 50 (Summer, 1998).
Bar Admissions
New York, District of Columbia