Biography

Asma T. Uddin joined The Becket Fund in 2009 after practicing commercial litigation at prestigious national law firms for several years. She is a 2005 graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of The University of Chicago Law Review.

Asma spent her first few years at The Becket Fund serving as the primary attorney for Becket's Legal Training Institute (LTI), which is devoted to working with local partners around the world to train advocates, lawyers, judges, religious leaders, journalists and students in religious freedom law and principles. In that capacity, Asma wrote an amicus brief in support of repeal of the Indonesian Blasphemy Act of 1965. She also traveled throughout Europe and to various countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and South East Asia to research regional issues and provide critical training for minority faith communities as well as politicians, journalists, and human rights organizations.

More recently, Asma has taken on the role of Legal Counsel, defending religious liberty in the U.S. through several prominent cases at The Becket Fund.

Asma is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of altmuslimah.com, a web magazine dedicated to issues on gender and Islam. Her work at altmuslimah has earned the praise of many, including Dr. Robert George of Princeton University, who has said, "On matters of sexual morality, marriage, and family in Islam, particularly in the American context, I recommend the writings of two exceptionally gifted young Muslim women writers: Suzy Ismail and Asma Uddin."

Aside from altmuslimah, she has helped edit the book, A Muslim in Victorian America, which was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. Asma was also an Associate Editor and legal columnist for Islamica Magazine. She is an expert panelist for the Washington Post religion blog, On Faith, and a contributor to Huffington Post Religion, CNN's Belief Blog, the Guardian's Comment is Free, and Common Ground News.

Asma speaks widely on issues of gender and faith, and national and international religious freedom. She also publishes widely on international and national religious freedom issues. Some of her work has been published in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, St. Thomas University Law Journal, and the First Amendment Law Review, and she has publications forthcoming from Ashgate Publishers and several prominent university presses. In February 2012, Asma testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the HHS mandate and religious liberty.

Originally from Miami, Florida, Asma now enjoys the relatively faster-paced environment of the Washington, DC area, where she lives with her husband and two children.