Sadiq Reza

Education

Harvard Law School
J.D., cum laude, 1991

Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University in Cairo
1987-1988

Princeton University
A.B., cum laude, 1986, (Politics/Near Eastern Studies)

Academic Positions

New York Law School
Professor (2006-present)
Associate Professor (1999-2005)

• Courses: American criminal law and procedure, comparative criminal procedure, Islamic law
• Adviser: Muslim Law Students Association & South Asian Law Students Association
• Awards: Teacher of the Year, 2007.

Harvard Law School, Graduate Program
Visiting Scholar (Fall 2007)

New England School of Law
Visiting Associate Professor (Spring 2005)

Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
Visiting Researcher (Fall 2004)

Leagal Experience

Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.
Litigation Associate (1997-1999)

Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.
Staff Attorney, trial and appellate divisions (1993-1997)

U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Weigel, San Francisco, CA
Law Clerk (1991-1992)

Previous Teaching Experience

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Fellow (Spring 1991), "The Religion and Culture of Islam."

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Teaching Fellow (Spring 1990), "Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East."
Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.

American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Teaching Fellow (1986 – 1987), English as a second language.

Publications

Books

Criminal Procedure Code: Egypt (translation and commentary) (Hein) (in progress)

Chapters in books

Egypt, in Stanford Handbook on Comparative Criminal Law (Markus Dubber and Kevin Jon Heller, eds.) (Stanford Univ. Press) (in progress).

Egypt, in Criminal Procedure: A Worldwide Study (Craig M. Bradley ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 2007).

Criminal Suspects and Arrestees, in Encyclopedia of Privacy (William G. Staples ed., Greenwood Press, 2006).

Law-review articles

Islam’s Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Doctrine and Practice (in progress).

Endless Emergency: The Case of Egypt, 10 New Crim. L. Rev. (formerly Buffalo Crim. L. Rev.) (2007)(in progress).

Torture and Islamic Law, 8 Chicago J. Int’l. Law 21 (2007).

Transnational Criminal Law and Procedure: An Introduction, 56 Journal of Legal Educ. 430 (2006).

Privacy and the Criminal Arrestee or Suspect: In Search of a Right, In Need of a Rule, 64 Maryland Law Review 755 (2005).

Unpatriotic Acts: An Introduction, Symposium, Criminal Defense in the Age of Terrorism, 48 New York Law School Law Review 3 (2003-04).

Privacy and the Post-September 11 Immigration Detainees: The Wrong Way to a Right (and Other Wrongs), 34 Connecticut Law Review 1169 (2002).

Religion and the Public Defender, 26 Fordham Urban Law J. 1051 (1999).

Dispute Over the United States’ Denial of a Visa to Yasir Arafat, 30 Harvard International Law Journal 536 (1989) (first-year student note).

Other publications

Israel’s Example, Washington Post (op-ed), Jun. 14, 2004, at A17.

A Trap for Middle Eastern Visitors, Washington Post (op-ed), Jan. 10, 2003, at A21.

Absolutely 100% Guilty: The Professional Edition, New York Law Journal, Sep. 12, 2000, at 2 (review of Vincent Bugliosi’s video series on the O.J. Simpson trial).

Out of Sync: A Curfew is No Answer to Teenage Crime in D.C., Washington Post Outlook (op-ed), Sep. 14, 1997, at C1.

Selected Service Activities

Founding Editor, Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) journal, Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World (forthcoming 2007).

Elected Member, Executive Committee, AALS Provisional Section on Islamic Law (Jan. 2007).

Member, Planning Committee, 2006 AALS Annual Meeting, Workshop on Integrating Transnational Perspectives into the First-Year Curriculum (with Janet Levit, Thomas Rowe, Mark Tushnet (chair) and David Wirth). Identified and invited speakers and arranged panels on criminal law and procedure.

Member and co-author of site-visit report, AALS Site Evaluation Team: Kuwait University School of Law (Oct. 2004) (with Barbara Bintliff, John Makdisi, Beverly Moran, Frank Vogel and Dale Whitman (chair)). Evaluated and reported on faculty scholarship (written in English and Arabic), as well as teaching evaluations, final examinations, classes and student services. Also interviewed several faculty members, staff members and students.

Member, Planning Committee, 2004 AALS Annual Meeting, Workshop on Islamic Law (with Azizah al-Hibri, John Makdisi, Lawrence Rosen and Frank Vogel (chair)). Proposed sessions and speakers; also moderated and spoke on “Criminal Law” panel, as listed below.

Selected Talks and Presentations

“Defense Nullification.”  Emerging Issues in Law, Terrorism, and National Security, Roger Williams School of Law (Nov. 9, 2007) (upcoming).

Torture in Islamic Law.  The Iraq High Tribunal and Middle Eastern Approaches to International Criminal Law (conference for U.S.-government policy-makers and other officials), Ballston, VA (July 17, 2007).

The Endlessness of Emergency: Lessons from Egypt. Invited panelist, Workshop on Criminal Law, Terrorism and the State of Emergency, State University of New York—Buffalo (May 11-13, 2007) (upcoming).

Criminal Procedure in Egypt: Recent Developments. Comparative Criminal Procedure Conference, Indiana University School of Law (Oct. 6, 2006).

Torture and Confessions in Islamic Law and Practice. Fifth International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, Harvard Law School (Sep. 8, 2006).

Domestic Surveillance: The Law and Its Impact on American Muslims & Muslim Institutions (panel moderator). Joint Conference, National Ass’n of Muslim Lawyers and National Muslim Law Students Ass’n, George Wash. Univ. Law School (Apr. 1, 2006).

Fatwa: Deconstructing an Islamic Legal Opinion. 2006 New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day (Mar. 21, 2006).

The Diversity of Islamic Law: Search and Seizure Doctrine. 2006 AALS Annual Meeting, Open Program on Islamic Law (Jan. 2006). Co-panelists: Bernard Freamon, Abdullahi An-Na‘im, Kristen Stilt, Frank Vogel (moderator).

Islamic Criminal Law. 2004 AALS Annual Meeting, Workshop on Islamic Law, Atlanta, GA (Jan. 2004). Moderator and panelist (with Cherif Bassiouni and David Forte).

Better Lawyers, Better Muslims. Fordham Law School, Muslim Students Association Annual Banquet (Nov. 2003). Keynote address.

Civil Liberties and Security. Institute for Law & Society, New York Univ. (Mar. 2003). Co-panelists Paul Chevigny and Stephen Schulhofer.

Muslims and National Security. Third Annual Conference, National Association of Muslim Lawyers, Columbia Law School (Oct. 2002). Moderator and panelist with Muneer Ahmad, Sameer Ashar, Nadine Strossen.

A Closer Look at Detention Powers. Univ. of Connecticut Law Review Symposium (Apr. 2002). Co-panelists: Jan Ting, Sameer Ashar, Akhil Amar.

Racial Profiling After September 11. ACLU / New York Law School forum (Feb. 2002). Panelist for discussion on the topic in conjunction with book tour by racial-profiling author David Harris.

The Events of 9/11 Under Islamic Law. New York Law School Faculty Workshop (Oct. 2001). Summary published in L Magazine (Jan. 2002).

Legal Challenges Facing Muslims in the U.S. First Annual Conference, National Association of Muslim Lawyers, Northwestern Univ. Law School (Oct. 1999). Moderator of presentation on the topic by Abdeen Jabara.

Bar Memberships

• Pennsylvania (1993)
• District of Columbia (1993)
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2002)