Research

Dissertation

“Battling the Ruins of our Past: Identity, Law, and the Politics of Cultural Property in Wartime”

Working Papers

“Can Human Rights and Religion work together?” (co-author with Jack Snyder)

“Understanding the Geopolitical Alignment of Swing States” (co-author with Sarah Daly, Abhudaya Tyagi and Gilbert Lai)

“In the Name of God: How grass roots based women’s rights groups continue to promote women’s rights in conservative Muslim majority societies”

“Building Political Will through Multistakeholder Initiatives: How the International Labor Organization can shape domestic politics”

Academic Publications

2024 “Humanitarian Intervention,” (with Michael Doyle) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics.

2021 “Reinterpreting Usul-al-fiqh: Taking a Literary Approach to Prohibitions Against Homosexuality in the Qur’an,” Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (University of Zurich).

2021 “Envisioning Community Paralegals in the United States: Beginning to Fix the Broken Immigration System,” The N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change.

2020 “Win the Battle, Lose the War?: Strategies for the Repealing the Zina Ordinance in Pakistan,” Muslim World Journal of Human Rights.

2019 The Death Penalty in Pakistan: A Critical Review, Justice Project Pakistan (the first textbook on the death penalty in Pakistan).

2019 Book Review for What is the Sharia? By Baudouin Dupret, International Journal of Law and Politics.