Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityKristen A. Stilt
Phone: (312) 503-1486
E-mail: stilt@law.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Kristen Stilt joined the Northwestern Law faculty in fall 2007 as an Associate Professor of Law with a joint appointment in the Department of History. She received her JD from The University of Texas School of Law, where she served as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Journal of Women and the Law. She received her PhD in Islamic history from Harvard University in 2004 and her book manuscript from her dissertation, entitled Law and Order in Medieval Cairo, is currently under revision.
Professor Stilt’s research interests are Islamic law in classical formulations and modern interpretations. Her current research project, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, studies the establishment of Islam as the state religion in the constitutions of Egypt, Morocco, and Malaysia.
She has received grants from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Center in Egypt, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Carnegie Corporation.
After graduating from law school in 1993, Stilt worked for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in the Washington, D.C. and Moscow, Russia offices before entering the PhD program at Harvard.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Comparative Law
- Islamic Law
- Law in the Modern Middle East
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Constitutional Authority and Subversion: Egypt’s New Presidential Election System, forthcoming in 16 Indiana Int’l and Comp. L. Rev., June 2006
- Islamic Law and the Making and Remaking of the Iraqi Legal System, 36 Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 695 (2004)
- Public and Private as Viewed Through the Work of the Muhtasib, with Roy P. Mottahedeh, 70(3) Social Research Journal (fall 2003)
Recent Publications
- Price Setting and Hoarding in Mamluk Egypt: The Lessons of Legal Realism for Islamic Legal Studies, The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari’a , 2008
JOINT APPOINTMENTS
EDUCATION
- BA, University of Texas at Austin
- JD, University of Texas at Austin
- PhD, Harvard University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Assistant Professor, The University of Washington School of Law, 2004-2007
- Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program, 2003-2004
- Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Law (Introduction to Islamic Legal Systems), Spring 2004
- Teaching Fellow, Harvard College (History of the Modern Middle East), 2003
- Attorney, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Moscow, Russia, June-August 1997
- Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, 1993-1996
