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 Sadiq Reza
Professor of Law
Editor, Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Research Paper Series (SSRN Journal)
Visiting Scholar, Graduate Program, Harvard Law School, Fall 2007
Visiting Professor, Boston University School of Law, Spring 2008
2008 Carnegie Scholar
2009 Chair-Elect, Section on Islamic Law, Association of American Law Schools
An authority on criminal law and procedure (American, comparative, and Islamic), Sadiq Reza is a former public defender in Washington, D.C., and award-winning teacher at Harvard in courses on Islam and the modern Middle East.
In 2004–05, he was a visiting researcher at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, and in the fall of 2007 he was a visiting scholar at Havard Law School's Graduate Program.
In April 2008, the Carnegie Corporation named Professor Reza a Carnegie Scholar for his research in Islamic criminal law and procedure. (See here for a description of the program, and here for a description of Professor Reza's project.) In 2007, graduating students named Professor Reza New York Law School's Teacher of the Year.
Before coming to New York Law School, Professor Reza clerked for a federal judge in San Francisco and spent four years as a trial and appellate attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. He has also worked with the American Muslim Council, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the law firm of Arnold & Porter.
While in law school, Professor Reza was an articles editor for the Harvard International Law Journal, a member of the Criminal Justice Institute and Prison Legal Assistance Project clinics, president of the Middle Eastern Law Students Association, and a teaching fellow in Harvard undergraduate courses on Islam and the modern Middle East, for which he received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching in 1990. Before law school Professor Reza spent two years at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, teaching English and studying Arabic at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad.
Upcoming and Recent Speaking Engagements
"Women's Rights and Islamic Law" (panel moderator). First Annual Women in Law Conference, Women's Law Association, Boston University School of Law, March 26, 2008.
"Due Process in Islamic Criminal Law." Muslim Law Students' Association, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law, Feb. 22, 2008.
"Defense Nullification." Emerging Issues in Law, Terrorism, and National Security, Roger Williams School of Law, Nov. 9, 2007.
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Contact information:
T: 212-431-2374
F: 212-431-1804
E: sreza@nyls.edu
O: B301
Assistant: Ned Thimmayya
T: 212-431-2143
E: nthimmayya@nyls.edu
Education:
Princeton, A.B. 1986 cum laude
Harvard, J.D. 1991 cum laude (Harvard International Law Journal, Articles Editor)
Law Clerk, Hon. Stanley A. Weigel, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Former public defender in Washington, D.C., and award-winning teaching fellow at Harvard in courses on Islam and modern Middle East. Also worked as attorney at American Muslim Council and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Courses:
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
Criminal Procedure: Investigation
Comparative Criminal
Procedure
Islamic Law
At New York Law School since 1999.
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