Dawood I. Ahmed is an English qualified international law attorney and a Research Associate at the Comparative Constitutions Project; he received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from the University of Chicago (his doctoral thesis was on “Constitutional Islamization”).
His scholarship focuses on constitutional design and public international law and he has worked on democratization projects with organizations including the Max Planck Foundation, International IDEA and the United Nations.
Islamic Constitutionalism (SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School) provides a survey instrument codifying the thirty "Islamic clauses”, i.e. those constitutional clauses that make a reference to Islam or having an Islamic underpinning, modeled... View Project