Vogel, Frank E.

Founding Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Frank E. Vogel was the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Adjunct Professor of Islamic Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the founding director of the law school’s Islamic Legal Studies Program. Vogel’s courses included the Islamic Legal System; Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought: Law, State, and World Order; Islamic Contract Law; Islamic Constitutional Systems; Human Rights and Islam; Comparative Adjudication; and the Comparative Law of the Arab Middle East. He has spent a number of years practicing law and conducting research in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Vogel has an B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, a J.D. from American University, and a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies with a focus on Islamic law from Harvard University. He is the author of Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia (Leiden 2000) and, with Samuel L. Hayes III, Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return (Boston and The Hague, 1998), as well as numerous articles.