Asifa Quraishi '92 Discusses Relevancy of Islamic Law
Asifa Quraishi '92, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a specialist in Islamic law and legal theory, will discuss the basics of Islamic law and why it is relevant to Americans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 2, 2006. She also will talk about some of the timely issues in the news that involve Islamic law and women, such as adultery laws.
Quraishi received her law degree from UC Davis, where she served as Senior Research Editor for the UC Davis Law Review. She also earned an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her professional experience includes serving as a judicial law clerk with Judge Edward Dean Price on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and as the death penalty law clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Quraishi made news in 2001 when she drafted a clemency appeal brief in the case of a Nigerian teenager who was sentenced to flogging for fornication in Nigeria. Quraishi is a founding member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML) and the California group American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA). She is an associate of the Muslim Womens League, and has served as past president and board member of Karamah: Muslim Women for Lawyers for Human Rights.
Quraishi joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in Fall 2004.
The program will be held at Mead Public Library at 6:00 p.m on Monday, October 2, 2006, in the library's Rocca Meeting Room.
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