Cem Tecimer

Cem is the Managing Editor at the Program in Islamic Law. He graduated from Harvard Law School with an LLM in 2016 and earned his doctorate (SJD) from Harvard Law School in 2024. He clerked for Judge William G. Young of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 2023 to 2024 and will clerk for the Federal Court of Appeals starting in 2025. His research interests include American and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, and its intersection with secular law. His scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Syracuse Law Review, and the Journal of Islamic Law, among other outlets. He is currently co-authoring Afterlives of Constitutions, a forthcoming book with Harvard University Press that explores how constitutions continue to shape political and legal life after they have been formally replaced. A dual-qualified lawyer, Cem is admitted to practice law in New York and Istanbul.