Stilt, Kristen

(Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Legal Studies, Harvard Law School) Stilt is an Associate Professor at Northwestern Law School with a joint appointment in Northwestern University’s Department of History. She received her JD from The University of Texas School of Law and her Ph.D. in Islamic History from Harvard University in 2004. Her research focuses on socio-legal history and legal change in the Muslim world. Her two most recent publications are a book entitled, Experiences of Law in an Islamic Empire, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and an article entitled “How is Islam the Solution?: Constitutional Visions of Contemporary Islamists,” forthcoming in Texas Journal of International Law. Her current main research project is a study of the genealogy and mobility of ideas about the place of Islam and Islamic law in constitutions.