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Articles
"Judicial Institutions, the Legitimacy of Islamic State Law and Democratic Transition in Egypt: Can a Shift Toward Common Law Model of Adjudication Improve the Prospects of a Successful Democratic Transition?" Forthcoming. International Journal of Constitutional Law.
Seeking an Islamic Reflective Equilibrium: A Response to Abdallahi A. An-Na'im's Complementary, Not Competing, Claims of Law and Religion: An Islamic Perspective. Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 39, p. 1257, 2013 (download article)
"Muslim Reformists, Female Citizenship and the Public Accommodation of Islam in Liberal Democracy," Politics and Religion, 5 (2012), 2–35 (download article) (link to Journal)
"Modernist Islamic Political Thought and the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions of 2011," 3 Middle East Last and Governance 94-104. (forthcoming 2011) (download article)
"Public Corruption and the Egyptian Revolution of January 25: Can Emerging International Anti-Corruption Norms Assist Egypt Recover Misappropriated Public Funds?," 52 Harvard International Law Journal (2011) (download article)
"Is Historicism a Viable Strategy for Islamic Legal Reform? The Case of 'Never Shall a Folk Prosper Who Have Appointed a Women to Rule Them'," 18 Islamic Law & Society 131-176 (2011). (download article)
"A Tragedy of Politics or an Apolitical Tragedy?," 131(1) Journal of the American Oriental Society (2011). (download article)
"Back to the Future: The paradoxical Revival of Aspirations for an Islamic State," 14(1) Review of Constitutional Studies (2009). (download article)
"Islamic Politics and Secular Politics: Can They Co-Exist?", 25(1) Journal of Law & Religion (2009). (download article)
"BCE and the Long Shadow of American Corporate Law" 48 Canadian Business Law Journal 190 (2009). (download article)
Commentator on "The Global Importance of 'Illiberal moderates', an Exchange: Partners in Peace to Precede a Concert of Democracies," Amitai Etzioni et al., 21, 2 Cambridge Review of International Affairs (June 2008), pp. 165-167.
“Ribâ, Efficiency and Prudential Regulation: Preliminary Thoughts” 25 Wisconsin Journal of International Law 655 (2008). (download article)
"Public Reason as a Strategy for Principled Reconciliation: The Case of Islamic Law and International Human Rights" 8(1) Chicago Journal of International Law 1 (Summer 2007). (download article)
"The True, the Good and the Reasonable: The Theological and Ethical Roots of Public Reason in Islamic Law" (2008) 21:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 5. (download article)
"Classical Religious Perspectives of Adoption Law" (2004) 79 Notre Dame Law Review 693. (with D. Pollack, C.Reid, & M. Bleich) (download article)
"In the Name of God" Legal Times, December 22, 2003 50-51.
"Reinterpreting the Guardian's Role in the Islamic Contract of Marriage: The Case of the Maliki School" (1998) 3:1 The Journal of Islamic Law 1. (download article)
"Two Women, One Man: Knowledge, Power and Gender in Medieval Sunni Legal Thought" (1997) 29 International Journal of Middle East Studies 185. (download article)
"The Social Logic of Taqlid and the Rise of the Mukhtasar" (1996) 3:2 Islamic Law and Society 193. (download article)
"Ibn al-Hajar's Hady al-Sari: A Medieval Theory of the Structure of al-Bukhari's Al-Jami` al-Sahih, Introduction and Translation" (Summer 1995) 54:3 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 161.
"Fatwas and Social History" (October 1996) 8:2 Al-'Usur al-Wusta: the Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists 32-33, 59.
Book Chapters
"'No Salvation Outside Islam': Muslim Modernists, Democratic Citiznship and Islamic Theological Exclusivism," in Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question, ed. Mohammad Hassan Khalil, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). (download chapter)
"Political Liberalism, Islamic Law and Family Law Pluralism: the Contrasting Cases of New York and Ontario," in Marriage and Divorce in a Multi-Cultural Context: Reconsidering the Boundaries of Civil Law and Religion, ed. Joel Nichols, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). (download article)
"Istafti qalbaka wa in aftâka al-nasu wa aftûka:' The Ethical Obligations of the Muqallid Between Autonomy and Trust," forthcoming as a chapter in a Festschrift in honor of Professor Bernard Weiss, ed. Kevin Reinhart. (view abstract)
"Authority in Ibn Abî Zayd al-Qayrawânî's Kitâb al-nawâdir wa al-ziyâdât 'alâ mâ fî al-mudawwana min ghayrihâ min al-ummahât: The Case of the 'The Chapter of Judgments' (Kitâb al-aqÃiya)," forthcoming as a chapter in a Festschrift in honor of Professor Wadad al-Kadi, The Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor Islamic Studies, University of Chicago eds. Jonathon Brown, Assistant Professor, University of Washington and Wen-Chn Ouyan, Associate Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom.
"Too Far From Tradition", in "Islam and the Challenge of Democracy" (2003) 28 Boston Review: a Political and Literary Forum 20-21. (downoad article)
"Istihsan is Nine-Tenths of the Law: The Puzzling Relationship of Usul to Furu' in the Maliki Madhhab" in Bernard Weiss, ed., Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Brill 2002) 161-76. (download article)
"Rules, Judicial Discretion and the Rule of Law in Nasrid Granada" in Robert Gleave, ed., Islamic Law: Theory and Practice (I.B. Tauris 1997) 49-86. (download article)
Book Reviews
"The Islamic Marriage Contract: Case Studies in Islamic Family Law," Edited by Asifa Quraishi and Frank E. Vogel, Journal of Islamic Studies 2011. (link to article)
International Treaties (Mu'āhadāt) in Islam: Theory and Practice in Light of Islamic International Law (Siyar) according to Orthodox Schools, Labeed Ahmed Bsoul, 27,1 American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (2010) pp. 128-132.
Original Islam: Mālik and the Madhhab of Madīna, Ysin Dutton, Journal of Islamic Studies (2010).
The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Process, Edited by Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters and Frank Vogel, Journal of Islamic Studies 2009 20(2): 259-263.
Shari'a: Islamic Law in Contemporary Context, eds. Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel, 24,2 Journal of Law and Religion 101 (2008-2009).
Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law: A Study of Six Works of Medieval Islamic Jurisprudence, Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Studies in Islamic Laws and Society, Brill, ed. Ruud Peters and Bernard Weiss, 40,4 International Journal of Middle East Studies 680-682 (2008).
Islamic Law and the Challenge of Modernity, ed. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Barbara Freyer Stowasser, 24,1 American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 98-102 (2007).
A History of the Early Islamic Law of Property -- Reconstructing the Legal Development, 7th-9th centuries, Hiroyuki Yanagihashi, Studies in Islamic Law and Society, Brill, ed. Ruud Peters and Bernard Weiss, 18(1) Journal of Islamic Studies 100-102 (2007).
Law and Power in the Islamic World, Sami Zubaida, 16 Journal of Islamic Studies No. 1, 72-74 (2005).
Between the State and Islam, Charles E. Butterworth and I. William Zartman, eds., Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (Summer 2002), pp. 62-63.
Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, by Oussama Arabi, 9 Islamic Law and Society 423-25 (2002).
Analogical Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence: a Study of the Juridical Principle of Qiyas, by Ahmad Hasan, 15 Journal of Law and Religion 359-62 (2001).
The Rule of Law in the Middle East and the Islamic World: Human Rights and the Judicial Process, Eugene Cotran and Mai Yamani, eds., 18 American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences No. 4 167-171 (2001).
Ibn Rushd wa kitabuhu al-muqaddimat, by al-Mukhtar b. al-Tahir al-Talili, Al-'Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists 6, 1 (1994), pp. 23-24.
Muhadarat fi tarikh al-madhhab al-maliki fi'l-gharb al-islami, Al-'Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists 6, 1 (1994), pp. 24-25.
Encyclopedia Articles
"History of Islamic International Law," Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, ed. Dr. Frauke Lachenmann et al. (Oxford).
"Murder," Encylopaedia of the Qur'an, ed. Jane Damen McAuliffe (Brill).
"Punishments and Chastisements," Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, ed. Jane Damen McAuliffe (Brill).
"Islamic Law," Encyclopedia of Islam in America, ed. Jocelyn Cesari (2007).
"Law and Jurisprudence," The Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. Joseph W. Meri (Routledge) (2006).
"Schools of Jurisprudence," The Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. Joseph W. Meri (Routledge) (2006).
"Hiraba, or Brigandage," The Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. Joseph W. Meri (Routledge) (2006).
"Public Authority (Sultan)," Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz (Baber Johansen, Islamic Law editor) (forthcoming).
"Public Law and Private Law," Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz (Baber Johansen, Islamic Law editor) (forthcoming).
"Proof and Procedure in Islamic Law," Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz (Baber Johansen, Islamic Law editor) (forthcoming).
"Forum, Exterior (Zahir), and Interior Forum (Batin)," Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz (Baber Johansen, Islamic Law editor) (forthcoming).
"Torture," Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz (Baber Johansen, Islamic Law editor) (forthcoming).
"Arbitration," Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Böwering (forthcoming).
"Contracts," Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Böwering (forthcoming).
"Collective Obligations," Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Böwering (forthcoming).
"Judicial Courts," Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Böwering (forthcoming).
"International Law, Regional Developments: Islam", Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, ed. Frauke Lachenmann.
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