Fadel, Mohammad H.

Mohammad H. Fadel is the professor of Religion and the Liberal State: The Case of Islam. He joined the Faculty of Law in January 2006. He received his BA in Government and Foreign Affairs (1988), a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (1995) and his JD from the University of Virginia (1999). While at the University of Virginia School of Law, Professor Fadel was a John M. Olin Law and Economics Scholar and Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review. Prior to law school, Professor Fadel completed his PhD in Chicago, where he wrote his dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic 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.