Mohammad H. Fadel is Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, which he joined in January 2006. Professor Fadel wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law while at the University of Chicago and received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Fadel was admitted to the Bar of New York in 2000 and practiced law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and securities-related regulatory investigations. Professor Fadel also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Professor Fadel has published numerous articles in Islamic legal history and Islam and liberalism.
Post History
Authored Works
- ::Roundtable:: History of Islamic International Law: “An Overview of Islamic International Law” by Mohammad Fadel
- Abd al-Razzāq al-Sanhūrī’s Conception of Modern Islamic International Law versus the Practice of Muslim States
- Molla Sali v. Greece and Undermining the Autonomy of Greece’s Muslims in Thrace: Equality versus Community
- Slavery and Freedom in the Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā (d. 234/848) Recension of the Muwaṭṭaʾ of Mālik b. Anas
- Is Islamic Purposivism (maqāṣid al-sharīʿa) a Thinly-Disguised Form of Utilitarianism?
- Roundtable :: Tunisian Inheritance Law Reform
- Thoughts on the Draft Tunisian Inheritance Reform Legislation
Other Scholarship
- Program in Islamic Law Celebrates Its New English Translation of al-Muwaṭṭaʾ
- Is Islamic Purposivism (maqāṣid al-sharīʿa) a Thinly-Disguised Form of Utilitarianism?
- Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal: July 26th
- Recent Scholarship: Fadel on Islamic Financial Ethics
- Lecture Series: Spousal Abuse and Islamic Law Reform
- Islamic Law Scholars’ Round-Up: Feb 25th
- Recent Scholarship: Fadel on Islamic Self-Government
- Recent Scholarship: Fadel on Human Rights
- Recent Scholarship: Fadel and Johnson on Constitutionalism
- Islamic Law Lexicon :: Ribâ