Clark Lombardi

Professor of Law and Islamic Legal Studies, University of Washington

Regional Focus: Egypt, Pakistan
Date of Presentation: Session 8, TBD

Biography:

Clark B. Lombardi is the Dan Fenno Henderson Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law and serves as the Director of Islamic Legal Studies and a core faculty member in the Asian Law Center.  Holding a PhD in Religious Studies from Columbia University and a J.D. From Columbia University School of Law, his research focuses on comparative constitutional law, with special attention to religious constitutionalism and on constitutional design for divided societies. Dr. Lombardi is the author of the monograph, State Law as Islamic law in Modern Egypt (2006) and the editor (with James Wellman) of the edited volume Religion and Human Security (2012)  He is co-series editor of the OUP series, Oxford Islamic Legal Studies. Among his more recent articles and book chapters on religious constitutionalism are “Designing Islamic Constitutions” (2013) and “Islamic Constitutions Beyond Liberalism” (2018).  He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.