Azizah Y. al - Hibri

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Personal information

Title: 
Attorney, Doctor of Jurisprudence, Founder & Chair of a NGO, University Professor

Contact information (work)

Organization/Institution: 
Karamah
Postbox: 
51795
Address: 
1420 16th Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20036
Postal code: 
Washington, D.C. 20037
City: 
Washington
Country: 
United States of America
Landline: 
00 1 804 289 8466 & 00 1 202 234 7302
Fax: 
00 1 804 289 8683 & 00 1 202 234 7304
Work email address: 
aalhibri@richmond.edu
Work webpage: 
http://www.karamah.org/

Education

Doctorate degree, Juris Doctor (Doctor of Law), 1985, University of Pennsylvania, School of Law, United States of America.
Law student, 1982 - 1985, University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Doctorate degree, Philosophy, 1975, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Bachelor degree, Philosophy, 1966, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Areas of Expertise

Islamic Law and Jurisprudence
Human Rights
Women’s Rights
American Civil Rights
American Corporate Law
Ethics
Philosophy of Technology
Feminism
Logic
Languages: 
Arabic
English

Work history

Professor (Associate, then Full), 1992 - present, T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond (USA).

Attorney, 1992 - 1987, Debevoise & Plimpton (Wall Street Law Firm) (USA).

Attorney, 1987 - 1985, Sullivan & Cromwell (Wall Street Law Firm) (USA).

Visiting Scholar, Fall 1985, Harvard Divinity School (USA).

Visiting Professor, 1984, Washington University in Saint Louis.

Professor (Assistant, then Associate), 1975 - 1983, Texas A&M University (USA).

Honorary office and memberships

Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, (Appointed by President Obama), June 2011.

Member of Women’s Foreign Policy Group, 2009 - present.

Founder & Chair of the Board of Karamah: Muslim Women lawyers for Human Rights, 1992 - present.

Member of American Bar Association, 1992 - present.

Productions

Publications highlights: 

Al-Hibri, A. (2006). Divine justice and the human order: An Islamic perspective. In W. Schweiker, M. Johnson, and K. Jung (Eds.), Humanity before God: Contemporary faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics (pp. 238 - 255). Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Al-Hibri, A., & El Habti, R. (Eds.). (2006). Islam. In D. Browning, M. C. Green, & J. Witte Jr. (Eds.), Sex, marriage and family in world religions (pp. 150 - 225). West Sussex: Columbia University Press.

Al-Hibri, A. (2005). The nature of the Islamic marriage: Sacramental, covenantal, or contractual? In J. Witte and E. Ellison (Eds.), Covenant marriage in comparative perspective (pp. 182 - 216). Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans.

Al-Hibri, A. (2003). An Islamic perspective on domestic violence. Fordham International Law Journal, (27), 195 -224.

Al-Hibri, A. (2001, Fall). Muslim women's rights in the global village: Opportunities and challenges. The Journal of Law and Religion, (15), 37- 66.

Al-Hibri, A. (1999). Islamic and American constitutional law: Borrowing possibilities or a history of borrowing? University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 1, (3), 492 –527.

Awards and Distinctions

Life Achievement Award from the Journal of Law and Religion, 2009.

The State of Virginia First Freedom Award, from the Council for America’s First Freedom, 2007.

Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond, 2004.

Fulbright Scholar Award from the Fulbright Comission, 2001.