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Shoaib Ghias
Year: Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) - JSP
Education:JD, Berkeley Law, 2012
MS in computer science, Wayne State, 2006
BS in computer science & political science, Wayne State, 2003
Shoaib A. Ghias is a PhD candidate at Berkeley Law.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Juristic Disagreement: The Collective Fatwā against Islamic Banking in Pakistan, in Karen Hunt-Ahmed, ed., CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC FINANCE (Wiley, 2013), pp. 103-119.
2. Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Judicial Power and the Legal Complex in Pakistan under Musharraf, 35 *LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY* 4 (2010), pp. 985-1022.
-- Reprinted in Terry Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm Feeley, eds., FATES OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM IN THE BRITISH POST-COLONY: THE POLITICS OF THE LEGAL COMPLEX (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 340-377.
3. International Judicial Lawmaking: A Theoretical and Political Analysis of the WTO Appellate Body, 24 BERKELEY J. INT'L L. 2 (2006), pp. 534-553.
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
Defining Sharīʿa: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review in Pakistan
