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Asma Uddin

International Legal Fellow
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Asma T. Uddin, an attorney, joined The Becket Fund as International Legal Fellow in 2009. Prior to joining the Becket Fund, Asma practiced commercial litigation at prestigious national law firms for several years. She is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of altmuslimah.com, and an expert panelist for the Washington Post/Newsweek blog, On Faith.

As an editor, Asma has worked with Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah on a number of articles for scholarly journals on Islamic Law. She also helped edit the entire manuscript of Dr. Abd-Allah's A Muslim in Victorian America, which was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. As Associate Editor and legal columnist for Islamica Magazine, Asma focused her writings on how American Muslims can rethink their social position within the American legal framework.

Aside from On Faith, Asma's writing has appeared in Muslim Girl Magazine, altmuslim, beliefnet, and in the Guardian's Comment is Free. Her more scholarly work has been published in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion and The Review of Faith & International Affairs. Asma has traveled throughout Europe and to various Muslim countries to meet with Muslim and other minority groups as well as politicians, journalists, and anti-discrimination organizations.

Asma is a 2005 graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member The University of Chicago Law Review.

Bar Memberships: Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey; District of Columbia (pending)

 

 

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