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Speaking
I have to prepare a bunch of speeches. I thought this would be my off week. Advanced Biofuels (due two weeks ago) 50 State Voter Mobilization Initiative at the Democratic Parity of Orange County, California (tomorrow) Roundtable on Exclusion in the American (ABA)(Tuesday) Environmental Law as Segregation (Howard University)(Friday) Youth And Female Empowerment as Muslim…
Gone
We knew it was coming. But it still felt so sudden. The loss. The ache. The pain of the loss and the heartache. She was always so strong, but so delicate in that petite frame. The fragile and the tough all combined in one momentous individual. Losing Justice Ginsburg is like losing the law. It’s…
To Ruffle Feathers, and Not Face the Backlash of it
I wrote this last summer on the Faculty Lounge, A Dangerous Volksgeist: Indian Law Journal Rejects Solicited Article on Indus Waters Treaty. I am way past that bridge on backlash. I think it’s hard to write when neither your country nor your community support you. The pandemic has shown that our days are so numbered.…
Heroic Educator
“The heroic educator is not an isolated, charismatic, or superhuman individual who hands down miraculous answers from on high. Instead, this is a person like us, who might say: “Come with me. We can do this together.” She could be a colleague who, by virtue of being a little farther down the road, can look…
Open Call for Book Chapter Contributions on Islamic Environmental Law
Handbook on Islamic Environmental Law Editors: Nadia Ahmad, Saba Kareemi, and Oluwakemi Ayanleye Islamic Environmental Law is simultaneously a classical legal framework and contemporary approach for environmental protection, human rights, and an earth-centered jurisprudence. This area of the law, while nascent in many respects, but developed in others, may be able to reconcile many global…