Intisar A. Rabb is a member of the law faculty at Boston College Law School, where she teaches in the areas of advanced constitutional law, criminal law, and comparative and Islamic law. She is also a research affiliate at the Harvard Law School Islamic Legal Studies Program and a 2010 Carnegie Scholar, awarded a grant for her research on "Islamic Law and Legal Change: The Internal Critique," which examines criminal law reform in the Muslim world. Her research in comparative law and legal history combines a policy-oriented assessment of public values with analyses of various schools of legal interpretation in different systems of law. She is particularly interested in questions at the intersection of criminal justice, legislative policy, and judicial process in American law and in the law of the Middle East and the wider Muslim world.
Rabb received a B.A. with honors from Georgetown University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, where her dissertation--which won the Princeton Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Thesis Prize for Best PhD Dissertation--focused on the history and function of legal maxims in Islamic law. She served as a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, and subsequently worked with members of the bench and bar in the U.K. as a Temple Bar Scholar through the American Inns of Court.
In law school, Rabb served on the editorial boards of the Yale Journal of International Law and the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, as well as on the board of the Black Law Students Association; she also worked in the Criminal Defense Clinic and at the Connecticut Public Defender’s Office. She currently serves as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Association and the Princeton Graduate School Leadership Council, and she remains active in the Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar.
Rabb has traveled for research to Egypt, Iran, Syria, and elsewhere. She speaks Arabic and Persian and has reading proficiency in French, German, and Spanish.
View her research on her SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=978361
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