Dr.
al-Hibri is Professor of Law at the T. C. Williams School of Law, University
of Richmond. She holds both a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
Law School and a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to her current appointment, she was in private practice, served
as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Divinity School, and was a Professor
of Philosophy at Texas A&M University and Washington University in St.
Louis. She has published widely on human rights, Islamic law and the rights
of women in Islamic legal systems. Dr. al-Hibri is founding editor of
Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy and founder and current
president of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. She has traveled
and lectured extensively throughout the Muslim world in support of Muslim
women's rights and participated in conferences and various workshops on
topics relating to Islamic jurisprudence, democracy, and women's rights
and Muslims in the United States. Her most recent publications include
chapters on "Islamic Jurisprudence and Critical Race Feminism" in Global
Critical Race Feminism (forthcoming) and "An Introduction to Muslim
Women's Rights" in Windows of Faith (publication expected in February
2000), and an essay "Is Western Patriarchal Feminism Good for Third World/Minority
Women?" in Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (1999). Among her
many video interviews are conversations with Bill Moyers on the PBS Genesis
Series, taped in Spring 1995. During a current sabbatical from the
Law School in Richmond, VA, she is a visiting scholar in the Law Library,
Library of Congress.
