Asifa Quraishi-Landes is Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin Law School, where she specializes in comparative Islamic and US constitutional law. She was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on Islamic constitutionalism for the 21st century. Her recent publications include articles on comparative legal theory, Islamic criminal law, and Muslim family law in US courts. She has served as a public delegate on the US Delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women and as advisor to the Pew Force on Religion & Public Life, among many other organizations. 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 US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
