LL.B., University of Jordan, Ammam, Jordan; LL.M., University of Bristol, England; MA, University of York, York, England; S.J.D., Harvard. Prior to joining the Law Center, Professor Abu-Odeh was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught Criminal Law, Comparative Family Law, Islamic Law, and a seminar entitled “Nations, Races, and Religion.” Professor Abu-Odeh was a writing instructor in the Graduate Program and Coordinator of Special Academic Projects, Islamic Legal Studies Program, at Harvard Law School. She worked at the World Bank as legal counsel in the Middle East/North Africa Division, Legal Department. As an elections observer for the United Nations, South Africa, Professor Abu-Odeh participated in voter education, party monitoring, and election supervision during the period leading to the first democratic elections in South Africa. Professor Abu-Odeh has written articles on Feminism and Islam.

Scholarship

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Lama Abu-Odeh, Gaza Shoah: Zionism’s Efficacious Role as Ideological Supplement in the US (working paper). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]
Lama Abu-Odeh, Gaza Shoah 11: The Frankenstein State of Israel (working paper). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]
Lama Abu-Odeh, Post Secularism and the Woman Question (working paper) (reviewing Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005)).
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Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Lama Abu-Odeh, Palestine and Palestinians, 74 Middle E.J. 152-154 (2020) (reviewing Elizabeth Brownson, Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period (2019)).
Lama Abu-Odeh, Janet Halley and the Art of Status Quo Maintenance, 2 Soc. Just. & Equity L.J. 5-46 (2019).
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