Rami Koujah

Rami Koujah is the PIL-LC Research Fellow at the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School for the 2025–2026 academic year and was previously a Research Editor at the ISLAMICLAWblog in 2022-2023. He previously held the Kamel Fellowship at Yale Law School. He was awarded his PhD from Princeton University, JD from Stanford Law School,   MSt from Oxford University, and a joint BA/MA from UCLA.​

Rami is currently working on two book projects: Islamic Legal Personhood: A Genealogy of Rights, Responsibilities, and the Juridical Self (under contract with Harvard University Press) and Death, Sex, and Slavery: The Making of Islamic Legal Subjectivities. The latter explores the ways in which legal formalisms that price and commodify human life reveal the co-constitutive relationship between premodern Islamic social theories and legal thought. Rami is also the co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Islamic Law.​

Rami’s scholarship has been recognized with multiple  awards including the Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Prize for best Ph.D. dissertation, the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize.