Rabea Benhalim
Associate Professor
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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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.