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Program in Islamic Law Writing Prize

The deadline for the 2019–2020 paper prize has passed. Please check this page in spring 2021 for information on the 2020–2021 paper prize.

Past Recipients

2018–2019	Orubah Sattar Ahmed (LLM ’19), “Lost Chastity to Lost Honor: The Heuristic Shift in Rape Discourse by the Supreme Court of Pakistan”
2016–2017	Katherine Gonzalez (JD ’17), “Unconstitutional Corporal Punishment?: Hudud Penalties and the Tension Between Constitutionalism and Islamic Conservatism in Malaysia”
2015–2016	Zeeshaan Hashmi (LLM ’16), “Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments or Amending the Unamendable?: A Critique of District Bar Association Rawalpindi v. Federation of Pakistan“
2014–2015	Marzieh Tofighi Darian (LLM ’15), “Jurisprudential Differences in Sunnī Law and Shī’ī Law and Their Impact on Constitutional Drafting and Design”