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Shoaib Ghias
Year: Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) - JSP
Biography:My disciplinary interest is public law, and the focus of my research is "Constitutional Jurisprudence and the Articulation of Islamic Law," particularly in Pakistan. I've been involved with the Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law as a founding member and the first co-editor-in-chief. I was born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I enjoy reading Urdu and Arabic poetry and I plan to study Persian.
PUBLICATIONS
The Legal Complex in Pakistan, in The Legal Complex in Post-Colonial Struggles for Political Freedom, ed. Terrence Halliday, Lucien Karpik, Malcolm Feeley (forthcoming)
Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Lawyers, Media, and the Struggle for Judicial Independence in Pakistan, Law and Social Inquiry (forthcoming 2010)
International Judicial Lawmaking: A Theoretical and Political Analysis of the WTO Appellate Body, Berkeley Journal of International Law 24:2 (2006)
PhD candidate, Juriprudence & Social Policy, UC Berkeley Law, expected 2011
Exchange Scholar, Study of Religion, Harvard University, 2006-07
M.S. Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2006
B.S. Political Science and Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2003
Islamic Law & Society
Constitutional Law & Politics
International Law & Human Rights
2009 Grad Student Paper Prize, Law & Social Inquiry, American Bar Foundation
2007 Sultan Fellowship, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
2006 Prosser Prize, Islamic Law & Society, Berkeley Law
Teaching Fellow, Government, Harvard University, 2006-07
Graduate Student Instructor, Legal Studies, UC Berkeley, 2005-06 & 2007-09
Constitutional Jurisprudence & the Articulation of Shari'a: Pakistan in Comparative Perspective
