Publications | Program on Law & Society in the Muslim World

Faculty Publications

Kristen Stilt, Faculty Director

Naturalized Rights of Animals, Animalized Rights of Nature, Stanford Environmental Law Journal (2025). Co-author: Macarena Montes.
War is Peace, International & Comparative Law Jotwell (2023).
Estrellita the Woolly Monkey and the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, ReVista (Feb. 10, 2023). Co-author: Macarena Montes Franceschini.
Rights of Nature, Rights of Animals, Harvard Law Review (2021).
Trading in Sacrifice, in Studies in Global Animal Lawe (Anne Peters ed., 2020).
Animals in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed eds., 2018).
Hisba and Muhtasib in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law (Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed eds., 2018). Co-author: M. Safa Saraçoğlu.
Judicial Review in the Context of Constitutional Islam, in Comparative Judicial Review (Erin F. Delaney & Rosalind Dixon eds., 2018). Co-author: Salma Waheedi.
Constitutional Innovation and Animal Protection in Egypt, Law and Social Inquiry (2018).
Law in Critical Terms for Animal Studies (Lori Gruen ed., 2018).
The Ambitions of Muslim Family Law Reform, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (2018). Co-authors: Salma Waheedi and Swathi Ghandhavadi Griffin.
Trading in Sacrifice, American Journal of International Law Unbound (2017).

Protection and Status of Animals in Max Plank Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (2017). Co-author: Jessica Eisen.
Contextualizing Constitutional Islam: The Malaysian Experience, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2015).
Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Egyptian Constitution of 1971 in Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes (Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser eds., 2014).
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (Emad El-Din Shahin ed., 2014).
“Hisba in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (Emad El-Din Shahin ed., 2014). Co-author: Abdul Rahman I. Doi.
Islamic Law in Action: Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experience in Mamluk Egypt (2011).
‘Islam Is the Solution’: Constitutional Visions of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Texas Journal of International Law (2010).
The End of ‘One Hand’: Th Egyptian Constitutional Declaration and the Rift Between the ‘People’ and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Yearbook of Islamic & Middle Eastern Law Online (2010).
Price Setting and Hoarding in Mamluk Egypt in The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari’a (Peri Bearman, Wolfhart Heinrichs, and Bernard Weiss eds., 2008).
Constitutional Authority and Subversion: Egypt’s New Presidential Election System, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review (2006).
Recognizing the Individual: The Muhtasibs of Early Mamluk Cairo and Fustat, Harvard Middle East & Islamic Review (2006).
Islamic Law and the Making and Remaking of the Iraqi Legal System, George Washington International Law Review (2004).

Salma Waheedi, Executive Director

Constructing Checks and Balances: Shari’a, Constitutional Courts, and the Civil State, Journal of Constitutional Law in the Middle East and North Africa (forthcoming 2026).
Criminal Law in Egypt, Oxford Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Kevin Jon Heller and Markus D. Dubber eds., forthcoming 2026). Co-author: Sadiq Reza.
Spotlights on Religions and Regions: Animal Law in Arab States of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt, and Saskia Stucki eds., forthcoming 2026).
Justice for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence: Access to Information and Legal Support Network in the Arab Region, UN Women Expert Papers (Sept. 2025).
Right of Return of the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Under International Law, Aram Manoukian Institute for Strategic Planning (2025). Co-authors: Yeghia Tashjian, Nareg Seferian, and Thomas Becker.
Guest Editor, Journal of Constitutional Law in the Middle East and North Africa , Issue 3 (2023). Co-editor: Tamara El-Khoury.
Attempts at Reform: Criminalizing Violence Against Women in Arab Countries, Violence Against Women in Arab Societies: Challenges and Horizons of Change (Amal Hamada ed., 2022). Co-author: Hala Abdelqader.
Litigating Women’s Rights in Arab Gulf Monarchial Systems, Arab Law Quarterly (Special Issue: Authoritarianism in the Arab World, Nathan Brown & Mai El-Sadany eds., 2022).
Constitutional Courts in Arab Gulf States, Al-Abhath, American University of Beirut (2022).
Islamic Shari’a in the Legal Orders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in Constitutional Review in the Middle East and North Africa (Anja Schoeller-Schletter ed., 2021).
Guarantees and Challenges of Judicial Independence: The Constitutional Courts of Kuwait and Bahrain as Case Studies, in Constitutional Review in the Middle East and North Africa (Anja Schoeller-Schletter ed., 2021).
Judicial Review in the Context of Constitutional Islam, in Comparative Judicial Review (Erin F. Delaney & Rosalind Dixon eds., 2018). Co-author: Kristen Stilt.
The Ambitions of Muslim Family Law Reform, Harvard J. Law & Gender (2018). Co-authors: Kristen Stilt & Swathi Ghandhavadi Griffin.
“Fulfilling U.S. Commitment to Refugee Resettlement: Protecting Refugees, Preserving National Security, and Building the U.S. Economy Through Refugee Admissions,” Texas A&M Law Review (2018). Co-authors: Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, Sabrineh Ardalan.
“The Constitutions of Arab Gulf States: Between the Welfare State and the Democratic State” (Arabic) in Constitutions of Arab Gulf States: Between the Welfare State and the Democratic State (Omar Al-Shehabi ed., 2013).