Rabea Benhalim
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 442
Phone: (303) 735-8940
E-mail: benhalim@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Bio:Rabea Benhalim is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. She teaches a variety of law courses including Contracts, Secured Transactions, Jewish Law and Islamic Law. Her research focuses on the development of Islamic and Jewish law in the modern era. Within this area, her current work investigates how secular environments affect interpretations and development of religious law, especially for minority religions. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the BYU Law Review, amongst others. She is regularly interviewed by media outlets.
Prior to joining the Colorado faculty, Professor Benhalim was the 2017-2019 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her prior work experience as a lawyer and policy expert includes positions at the Brookings Institution, Mayer Brown LLP, Maersk Oil, and the Carter Center. She holds a J.D. from the University of Texas, an L.L.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, a Master of Islamic Studies from the University of Texas, and a Master of Public Policy Degree from the University of Michigan.
Forthcoming
| Abortion under Jewish and Islamic Law, B.Y.U, L. REV. (2025) (forthcoming). |
Articles
| Contract Customization, Sex, and Islamic Law, 108 MINN. L. REV. 1861 (2024). |
| Oppression in American, Islamic, and Jewish Private Law, 94 COLO. L. REV. 1 (2023). |
| The Case for American Muslim Arbitration, 2019 WIS. L. REV. 531, 592 (2019). |
| Religious Courts in Secular Jurisdictions, 84 BROOK. L. REV. 745, 800 (2019). |
| Women's Rights and Religious Law: Domestic and International Perspectives, 33 J. OF L. AND RELIGION (2018) (book review). |
| Benhalim with Wittes & Bennett, Rationalizing Government Collection Authorities: A Proposal for Radical Simplification, GOVERNANCE STUDIES AT BROOKINGS (Jan. 7, 2011). |
| Benhalim with Wittes & Chesney, The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantánamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking, GOVERNANCE STUDIES AT BROOKINGS (Jan. 22, 2010). |
Online Essays
| Islamic Finance and Sukuk in Africa, AR3: RESILIENCE, RISK, AND RECONSTRUCTION MAG. (Jan. 2016). |
| Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, LAWFARE, (Jun. 22, 2012) (book review). |
Selected Press, Media & Publicity
| Religious views on abortion more diverse than they may appear in U.S. political debate | Elisha Brown, STATES NEWSROOM, May 6, 2024 (quoted extensively) | Monday, May 6, 2024 |
| The Debate Over Muslim College Students Getting Secret Marriages | Emma Green, THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, Sept. 9, 2022 (quoted extensively) | Friday, September 9, 2022 |
| How divorced Muslim women in the US are fighting for what they're owed | Zainab Iqbal, MIDDLE EAST EYE, Aug. 3, 2022 (quoted extensively) | Wednesday, August 3, 2022 |
Courses:
| Fall 2025 | Contracts | LAWS 5121-802 |
| Fall 2025 | Secured Transactions | LAWS 6021-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Sem Law & Religion | LAWS 8385-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Sem Law & Religion | LAWS 8385-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Contracts | LAWS 5121-803 |
| Fall 2023 | Secured Transactions | LAWS 6021-801 |
| Spring 2023 | Sem Law & Religion | LAWS 8385-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Contracts | LAWS 5121-803 |
| Fall 2022 | Secured Transactions | LAWS 6021-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Contracts | LAWS 5121-803 |
| Spring 2021 | Secured Transactions | LAWS 6021-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Introduction to Islamic Law | LAWS 6518-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Contracts | LAWS 5121-803 |
| Spring 2020 | Secured Transactions | LAWS 6021-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Contracts | LAWS 5121-803 |
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With our roots in Colorado and a global outlook, we are ...
a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
To be an outstanding public law school that: provides students with a state-of-the-art legal education and prepares them to serve wisely and with professionalism; advances the development of knowledge through scholarship, testing of new ideas, and challenges to the status quo; and serves as a vehicle and catalyst for meaningful public service, all of which deliver high value to our students and have positive impacts?both locally and globally?on the legal profession and society.