Publications

Works in Progress

Halal Animals: Food, Faith, and the Future of Planetary Health (book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press).

• “Animal Laws and Animal Protection in the Arab Gulf States,” in The Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (forthcoming, 2024).
•  Guest Editor,  Journal of Constitutional Law in the Middle East and North Africa-Issue 3 (Arab Association of Constitutional Law & Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, 2023).
• “Attempts and Trials of Reform: Domestic Violence Laws in Arab Countries” (Arabic), in Violence Against Women in Arab Countries: Issues and Horizons of Change in Fiqh and Law (Amal Hamada ed., 2022).
• “Litigating Women’s Rights in Arab Gulf Monarchial Systems,” 36 (4-5) Arab Law Quarterly 422 (Special Issue: Authoritarianism in the Arab World, Nathan Brown & Mai El-Sadany eds., 2022).
• “Constitutional Courts in Arab Gulf States,” 70 (1-2) Al-Abhath (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,” 41 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 301 (2018). Co-authors: Kristen Stilt and Swathi Ghandhavadi Griffin.
• Mapping of Muslim Family Laws (Musawah Movement for Equality in the Muslim Family, 2017).
• “Constitutions of Arab Gulf States: Between the Welfare State and the Democratic State” (Arabic) in Gulf 2013: The Constant and the Changing (Omar Al-Shehabi ed., Gulf Center for Development Policies, 2013).