Sadiq Reza

Professor of Law, New York Law School, New York

Sadiq Reza

Professor of Law, New York Law School, New York
Sadiq Reza is a professor of law at New York Law School and a former award-winning teaching fellow in Harvard undergraduate courses on Islam and the modern Middle East. His current scholarship focuses on criminal procedure under Islamic law (sharia) and in the countries of today's Muslim world; in 2008 he was named a Carnegie Scholar for his ongoing work on identifying rules of criminal due process in classical and modern Islamic jurisprudence. His publications include Torture and Islamic Law (Chicago J. Int'l Law, 2007), Endless Emergency: The Case of Egypt (New Crim. Law Review, 2007), and Islam's Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Doctrine and Muslim Practice (Georgetown J. Int'l Law, 2009); for the latter article he received New York Law School's annual award for best faculty article. He has also written chapters on Egypt for Criminal Procedure: A Worldwide Study (Carolina, 2007) and the forthcoming Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford, 2010). Professor Reza has been a visiting scholar at Harvard's Islamic Legal Studies Program and a visiting professor at the law schools of Boston University and American University, and in 2007 he was named New York Law School's Teacher of the Year. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Harvard Law School, and the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the American University in Cairo.
Last updated: Nov 05, 2025

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