Asifa Quraishi

Education Quraishi's father was born in Jaipur, British India, but migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 1992. She also earned a Master of Laws degree from Columbia Law School in 1998 and a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Harvard Law School in 2006.

Career From 1993 to 1994, she served as a law clerk to Judge Edward Dean Price of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and from 1994 to 1997, she served as a death penalty law clerk for the Ninth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals.

Quraishi joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin Law School in 2004.

Selected publications

Books and journal articles "No Altars: An Introduction to Islamic Family Law" in Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspective on Reform ed. Lynn Welchman and Abdullahi an-Naim. (Zed Books, 1996). "Her Honor: An Islamic Critique of the Rape Laws of Pakistan from a Woman-Sensitive Perspective," 18 Mich. J. Int'l L. 287 (1997).

Online articles Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (2016-06-24). "Five myths about sharia". The Washington Post. Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (May 9, 2017). "How to create an Islamic government – not an Islamic state". Middle East Eye. Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (2017-06-08). "How anti-Shariah marches mistake Muslim concepts of state and religious law". Religion News Service. Quraishi-Landes, Asifa (March 15, 2019). "Perspective | Five myths about hijab". The Washington Post.