Adeel Hussain

Associate Program Head of Legal Studies; Associate Professor of Legal Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD University of Cambridge

Research Areas: Legal History, Legal Theory, Constitutional Law, Islamic Law, International Law, Jurisprudence


Adeel Hussain is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies. He holds two state examinations in law from Germany and was admitted to the Frankfurt bar. He also earned a Master’s and PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently qualified as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. 

He is the author of Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India (Oxford University Press, 2022), Revenge Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2022), Carl Schmitt’s European Jurisprudence (Nomos, 2021), and Nehru: The Debates that Defined India (Harper, 2021).

Before joining NYU, Hussain was an Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory at Leiden University. He also clerked at the Court of Appeals in Frankfurt and held Senior Research Fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law.

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