KHALED A. BEYDOUN
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
651 E. Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 910-5170
[email protected]
SSRN Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2295370
Scholarly expertise includes national security, civil rights and the formation of Arab and
Muslim American legal identity; race, religion and citizenship; constitutional law with
special emphasis on 1st and 14th Amendments; counter-radicalization.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
2016 – Present
Associate Professor of Law
Courses: Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
August
Univ. of California, Berkeley – Center on Race & Gender
August
2014 – Present
Affiliated Faculty – Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project
Service: Annual Conference Organizing Committee; CVE Conference Steering Committee;
Editor, Islamophobia Studies Journal
Barry Law School
July 2014 –
July 2016
Assistant Professor of Law
Courses: Torts; Criminal Law; Civil Rights; Constitutional Law; Immigration Law; Islamic
Law
Service: Faculty Adviser, Middle Eastern American Law Student Society; Faculty
Development Committee; Admissions Committee; Mission Committee; Faculty
Recruitment Committee
Honors: Professor of the Year, 2015 (awarded during first year of employment)
Diversity in Education 2016 Emerging Scholar Award
UCLA School of Law
Visiting Assistant Professor/Fellow
Courses: Critical Race Theory; Middle Eastern Americans & the Law
2012 – July 2014
Service: Admissions Committee; Annual Conference Organizing Committee
UCLA Department of Sociology
2004
Lecturer
Course: Law & Society (undergraduate survey course)
May
January – April
LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP
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“Muslims Bans” and the (Re)Making of Political Islamophobia, U. ILL. L. REV. ___
(forthcoming 2017)
Between Indigence, Islamophobia and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in “War on Terror”
America, 104 CAL. L. REV. 101 (2016)
Reverse Passing, 64 UCLA L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2016, co-authored with Erika K.
Wilson)
Islamophobia: Toward a Legal Definition and Framework, 116 COLUM. L. REV. ONLINE 1
(2016)
Beyond the Paris Attacks: Unveiling the War Within French Counterterror Policy, 65 AM.
U. L. REV. 1273 (2016)
Boxed In: Reclassification of Arab Americans on the U.S. Census as Progress or Peril?
47 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 101 (2016)
Islam Incarcerated: Religious Accommodation of Muslim Prisoners Before Holt v. Hobbs,
84 U. CIN. L. REV. 99 (2016)
A Demographic Threat? Proposed Reclassification of Arab Americans on the 2020
Census, 12 MICH. L. REV. ONLINE 465 (2015)
Antebellum Islam, 58:1 HOWARD L.J. 141 (2015)
Why Ferguson is Our Issue: A Letter to Muslim America, 31 HARVARD J. ON RACE & ETHNIC
JUSTICE 1 (Symposium Article, 2015)
Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab-American Identity, 69
N.Y.U. ANNUAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN L. 29 (2014)
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Cited by US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, Hassan v. City of New York (2015)
Fast-Tracking Women into Parliamentary Seats in the Arab World, 17 SOUTHWESTERN J.
OF INT’L L. 101 (2011)
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Cited in 45 GEO. WASH. INT’L LAW REV 1 (2013); 21 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & LAW 87 (2014)
Without Color of Law: The Losing Race Against Colorblindness in Michigan, 12 MICH. J.
RACE AND L. 465 (2007)
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Cited in CAL. L. REV. 1259 (2008); 94 IOWA L. REV. 1589 (2009); 85 IND. L. J. (2010)
Re-segregation By Referendum, 19 HARVARD J. OF HISP. POL. 73 (2006)
The Trafficking of Domestic Workers into Lebanon, 24 BERKELEY J.
(2006)
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Cited in 2006 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1403 (2006); 7 INTERCULTURAL HUM. RTS. L. REV. 9 (2010)
Dar Al-Islam Meets Islam as Civilization, 4 UCLA J. ISLAMIC & NEAR E.L. 143 (2005)
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WORKS IN PROGRESS
Bisecting American Islam
Passing Up (with Erika K. Wilson)
Islamophobia and the Law (Book – co-edited with Cyra Chaudry)
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES, BOOKS, AND CHAPTERS
Divesting from Sectarianism: Reimagining Relations Between Iran and the Arab Gulf
States, 69:2 COLUMBIA J. OF INT’L AFFAIRS 47 (2016) (co-authored with Hamada Zahawi)
Profiling Poverty in Muslim America, ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL (forthcoming 2015)
– peer reviewed
All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim, “Detroit Surah,” WHITE CLOUD PRESS
(2012)
Mortgaging God’s Interest: Mainstreaming Shari’ah Compliant Mortgage Products,
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS (2008)
Laicité, Liberalism and the Headscarf, 10 J. OF ISLAMIC LAW & CULTURE 188 (2008) – peer
reviewed
PUBLIC POLICY PUBLICATIONS
Understanding Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), NATIONAL NETWORK
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES (February 2016)
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ARAB
Make Us Count: Toward a Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) Box on the Census,
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITIES (August 2015)
Many Faces of Hate: The Distinct Forms of Anti-Arab Bigotry and Violence, NATIONAL
NETWORK OF ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITIES (April 2015)
Why Muslim Lives Don’t Matter: Before, and Beyond, the Chapel Hill Shootings, MICH. J.
RACE & L. (Online Forum, February 20, 2015)
Color Me Bad: An Indigenous Reclamation of Arab American Identity, AMERICAN ARAB
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE (March 2011)
The Status of Women in Iraq: Compliance With Int’l Standards, AMERICAN BAR
ASSOCIATION (2005)
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Analysis of the Draft Code of Judicial Conduct for the Kingdom of Cambodia, AMERICAN
BAR ASSOCIATION – ASIA LAW INITIATIVE (2005)
EDUCATION
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
J.D., concentration in Critical Race Studies
Editor-in-Chief, JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC & NEAR EASTERN LAW
Recipient, Public Interest Law Fellowship (2002 & 2003)
Bar Membership: Michigan
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW, Toronto, Canada
LL.M, concentration on Islamic Law, summa cum laude
Senior Articles Editor, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW REVIEW
Recipient, Clifford Chance Fellowship in Islamic Finance (2008)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
B.A., Political Science and Near Eastern Studies, with distinction
LANGUAGES – Arabic (fluent); French (rudimentary)
CONSULTING WORK
Legal Expert, review of Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) Census box, U.S.
CENSUS BUREAU (October 2014 – Present)
Senior Strategist, The Campaign to Take on Hate, NATIONAL NETWORK OF ARAB AMERICAN
COMMUNITIES (August 2014 – April 2016)
Adviser, MUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLLECTIVE (March 2014 – Present)
Personal Consultant, DEPUTY CHIEF
(January 2011 – January 2013)
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MISSION – EMBASSY
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QATAR, Washington, DC
Consultant, Profiles of the Arab Spring, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT (June 2011)
Legal Consultant, UM ISLAMIC BANK (June 2008 – July 2011)
Consultant, AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM
January 2008)
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL (March 2006 –
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
EGYPTIAN AMERICAN RULE OF LAW ASSOCIATION, Washington, DC
Co-Founder and Staff Attorney, 2011 – 2012
JAAFER & MAHDI LAW GROUP, Detroit, MI
Criminal Defense Attorney, 2010 – 2011
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AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM – COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL, New York, NY
Concurrent Appointment with ACLU, 2005 – 2008
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Detroit, MI
Racial Justice Fellow, 2005 – 2007
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION RULE OF LAW INITIATIVE, Washington, DC
Legal Analyst, Middle East & North Africa, 2004 – 2005
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND FEATURED LECTURES
The Pedagogy of Love: Teaching Social Justice in a Catholic Law School Room, Society of
American Law Teachers (SALT) Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 1, 2016
Keynote Address: Immigration and the 2016 Elections, Baltimore Immigration Summit,
Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 30, 2016
Activism, Advocacy, and Scholarship on Islam in the Digital Realm: Prospects, Progress,
and Challenges, Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston,
Massachusetts, September 16, 2016
Featured Guest Lecture: The State of Muslim American Civil Liberties, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, New York, April 29, 2016
Featured Guest Lecture: Islamophobia, Indigence, and Erasure, Kennesaw State
University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 22, 2016
Yale Law School Critical Race Theory Conference, Yale Law School, Emerging Scholars
Panel – Reverse Passing, New Haven, Connecticut, April 9, 2016
Counter-Radicalization in Muslim American Communities, Southeast/Southwest People
of Color Law Conference, Florida A&M School of Law, Orlando, FL, February, 25, 2016
Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Individual and Institutional
Strategies, Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, New York City,
NY, January 9, 2016
The Structure and Strategy of Countering Violent Extremism Policing, Arab American
Leadership Summit, Dearborn, MI, November 6, 2015
How Law and Media Perpetuate Islamophobia, Rule of Law Forum, Doha, Qatar, October
23, 2015
Boxed In or Out? The Legal Paradox and Perils of Arab American Identity, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 12, 2015 (scheduled)
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Islam Incarcerated: The Constitutional Rights Procured By Muslim Inmates, Islamic
Society of North America Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 5, 2015
Boxed In: Reclassification of Arab Americans on the 2020 Census, African American
Policy Forum Writers of Color Retreat, Negril, Jamaica, July 3, 2015
Forum on Ethnic Groups from the Middle East and North Africa, US Census Bureau,
Washington, DC, May 29, 2015
Islamophobia at the Margins, 6th Annual Islamophobia Studies Conference, UC-Berkeley
School of Law (Boalt Hall), April 24, 2015
Indigenous Muslims and the Law, Critical Race Studies Conference, UCLA School of Law,
October 3, 2014
The Color of Criminal Suspicion: Racial Profiling, Surveillance and the Policing of our
Communities, UCLA School of Law, Presenter, February 20, 2014
Racialization of Muslim Americans: Past and Present, Los Angeles, CA, Loyola Los
Angeles School of Law, Guest Lecturer, February 5, 2014
Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab-American Identity, Los
Angeles, CA, UCLA School of Law, Faculty Colloquium, October 14, 2013
Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab-American Identity, Chicago,
Illinois, 2013 Bicentennial LatCrit Conference, October 3, 2013
Temporary Protected Status in the US Following the Arab Uprisings, The Hague,
Holland, World Justice Forum IV, July 8, 2013
Constitutionalist and Public Law Approaches to Racial Hierarchies,
Massachusetts, Law & Society Association 2013 Conference, May 31, 2013
Boston,
Between Muslim and White: The Legal Construction of Arab-American Identity,
California American Studies Association 2013 Conference, San Diego State University,
April 26, 2013
Negotiating Marginalized Identities in the Legal Academy: New & Emerging Scholars,
Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review Symposium, UCLA School of Law, April 5, 2013
The Arab Spring’s Impact on the Racial Formation of Arab-Americans, Critical Race
Studies Building Our Home
Conference, UCLA School of Law, March 8, 2013
Judicial Orientalism and the Remaking of Arab Identity, Critical Race Theory from the
Academy to the Community Conference, Yale Law School, February 9, 2013
Protecting the Rights of Religious and Ethnic Minorities in the Arab World, The 12th Doha
Forum: Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future, Doha, Qatar, May 21, 2012
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From the Arab Street to the Arab Tweet: The Role of Virtual Public Forums in the
Egyptian Revolution, World Justice Forum III, Barcelona, Spain, June 21, 2011
Unveiling Laicité and Religious Neutrality: A Comparative Examination of Policies
Against the Headscarf in France and the United States, 3rd Annual Muslims Studies
Conference: Muslims, Race, and the Public Sphere, Michigan State University, April 5,
2008
Without Color of Law: The Campaign to Defend Affirmative Action in Michigan,
Overturn Proposition 209 Conference, University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall), April
6, 2006
SELECT OP-EDS
Vilification of Muslims Grows in Presidential Campaign, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
September 13, 2016
Trump’s Anti-Muslim Stance Echoes a U.S. Law from the 1700’s, WASHINGTON POST,
August 18, 2016
Three Olympic Athletes Show the Positive Power of Islam, TIME, August 16, 2016
Ted Cruz Has Already Won: His Absurd Plan to Police Muslims is Already Happening,
SALON, March 26, 2016
Between Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism: Bernie Sanders and the ‘Muslim Vote’,
NEWSWEEK, March 13, 2016
Islamophobia Has a Long History in the US, BBC NEWS, September 29, 2015
Ramadan in the Shadows: Fasting While Poor, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, June 21, 2015
Ramadan and American Slavery: The First But Forgotten Fasts, CNN, June 22, 2015
Are We Witnessing the Emergence of a Black Spring?, EBONY, May 5, 2015 (co-authored
with Professor Priscilla Ocen, Loyola Law School)
The Color of Muslim Mourning, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, February 15, 2015
Muslims in the News Only When Behind the Gun, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, January 9, 2015
Beyond A Binary: Muslim America More Than “Indigenous and Immigrant,” THE ISLAMIC
MONTHLY, July 23, 2013
African Slaves Were the First To Celebrate Ramadan in America, THE ROOT, July 3, 2014
The French ‘Kiss’ Race Goodbye, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, June 2, 2013
From King to Spring: Parallels Between the Civil Rights Movement and Egypt’s
Revolution, ATLANTIC COUNCIL, January 24, 2012
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A New Egypt, A New Me, COUNTERPUNCH, March 4, 2011
SELECT MEDIA APPEARANCES
AMANPOUR, History of Muslims Bans in the US, CNN Int’l, August 23, 2016
ABC NEWS LIVE, Aftermath of the Belgium Attacks, ABC News, March 22, 2016
PBS NEWSHOUR, Fear, Loathing and Pot-Stirring, PBS, December 8, 2015
NBC NEWS, Celebrating the Forgotten Stories of Black Muslim Ramadan, July 15, 2015
HUFFINGTON POST, Live with Marc Lamont Hill, Confederate Flag and Racist Symbols,
July 27, 2015
BBC WORLD NEWS, Newschannel, Charleston Church Shooting, June 19, 2015
NBC NEWS, Chapel Hill Shooting: Muslim Leaders Criticize Media Coverage, February 17,
2015
FOX NEWS, The Kelly File, Aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks, January 11, 2015
NPR, Talk of the Nation, Boston Bombings: The Conversation in Arab-American and
Muslim Communities, April 18, 2013
BBC RADIO, The Aftermath of the Boston Bombings, April 17, 2013
C-SPAN, Civil Rights Ten Years After September 11, September 8, 2011
AL JAZEERA, The Stream, Popular Protests in Egypt, August 15, 2011
C-SPAN, Role and Identity of Arab Americans, June 11, 2011
RUSSIA TODAY, Egypt: Demanding Democracy, January 31, 2011
EXTERNAL ACADEMIC SERVICE
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Exec. Board Member, Minority Committee of the Assoc. of American Law Schools
(AALS)
Steering Committee, Countering Violent Extremism Conference (CVE) at UCBerkeley
Articles Editor, ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL (peer-reviewed journal at UCBerkeley)
Senior Editor, THE ISLAMIC MONTHLY
Founding and Contributing Member, RACE AND THE LAW PROFS BLOG
Affiliated Faculty, ISLAMOPHOBIA RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION PROJECT (IRDP)
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Member, LAT CRIT
Founding Board Member, EGYPTIAN AMERICAN RULE OF LAW ASSOCIATION (EARLA)
INTERNAL ACADEMIC SERVICE
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Faculty Member, UDM Law School Faculty Development Committee
Faculty Member, UDM Law School Diversity Committee
Faculty Adviser, Criminal Law Society
Faculty Adviser, Middle Eastern American Student Association
Faculty Member, Barry Law Faculty Appointments Committee
Faculty Member, Barry Law Academic Standards Committee
Faculty Member, Barry Law Faculty Development Committee
Faculty Member, Barry Law School Admissions Committee
Faculty Supervisor, Law School Mission Trip to New Orleans (May 2015)
Mentor, Bar Exam Prep Program
Faculty Member, UCLA Law School Admissions Committee
Mentor, UCLA Law Fellows Program
Organizer, 2013 Critical Race Studies Conference
TEACHING EVALUATIONS
Course
Mean
Course
Mean
Fall 2016
Constitutional Law
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
n/a
Torts II
Torts I
Civil Rights
4.89/5.0
Civil Rights
4.9/5.0
Spring 2015
Torts I
4.98/5
Torts II
4.97/5
Fall 2014
Immigration Law 4.96/5
Torts I
4.98/5
Spring 2014
Research
Critical Race Theory
Directed
9/9
Fall 2014
n/a
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
8.5/9
n/a
Civil Rights Seminar
n/a
8.43/9
n/a
n/a
* Evaluations Available Upon Request
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REFERENCES
DEVON W. CARBADO
The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Avenue, Room 2102
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office: 310.795.3365
Email: [email protected]
KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW
Distinguished Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Avenue, Room 4109
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cell: 310.446.9486
Email: [email protected]
NANCY LEONG
Professor of Law
Denver University School of Law
2255 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80210
Home: 650-814-9418
Email: [email protected]
EDIBERTO ROMAN
Professor of Law
Florida Int’l Univ. School of Law
1100 SW 8th Street
University Park, FL 33199
Office: 305-348-7254
Home: 954-326-6645
Email: [email protected]
SAHAR F. AZIZ
Associate Professor | Texas A&M School of Law
President | Egyptian American Rule of Law Association
1515 Commerce St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Office: 512.560.8085
Email: [email protected]
JAMILA JEFFERSON
Associate Professor of Law
UMKC School of Law
500 E. 52nd Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Office: 504-450-8946
Email: [email protected]
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