Asifa Quraishi-Landes specializes in comparative Islamic U.S. constitutional law, with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. She was a 2009 Carnegie Scholar and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. Her recent publications include "Legislating Morality Illusions Islamic Government" and "Healing Wounded Islamic Constitutionalism: Sharia, Legal Pluralism, Unlearning Nation-State Paradigm". Quraishi-Landes is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Three Pillars Constitutionalism" which proposes a new model of Islamic constitutionalism for today's Muslim-majority countries. She holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School and degrees from Columbia Law School, University of California-Davis, and University of California-Berkeley. She has served as a law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as a Public Delegate for the United States Delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and as an advisor to the Pew Task Force on Religion & Public Life. Additionally, she has held leadership roles in various organizations, including serving as President of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers and Executive Director of Muslim Advocates.