Asifa Quraishi is a Professor of the Law at University of Wisconsin Law School. She is specialized in comparative Islamic and U.S Constitutional Law with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory and Shariah Law. She is a 2009 Carnegie Scholar. Her recent publications include various articles on comparative legal theory, Islamic criminal law and Muslim family law in United States courts. She worked as a law clerk in United States federal courts. Quraishi has served as a Public Delegate on U.S Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She has also served on the Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S Foreign Policy for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and as an advisor to the Pew Force on Religion and Public life. She is the founding board member of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers NAML and American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism AMILA. She is an associate of the Muslim Women’s League and has served as President and board member of this league. She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and other degrees from Columbia Law School, and the University of California. She was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on Islamic constitutionalism for the 21st century.
