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Faisal I. Chaudhry

James E. Rogers College of University of Arizona 1201 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721 [email protected]

______I. ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (2016-) Visiting Assistant Professor, James E. Rogers College of Law University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2012-2016) Post-Doctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Departments of South Asia Studies/History Columbia University Law School, New York, NY (2008-2009) Fellow, Center for the Study of Law & Culture

II. EDUCATION Ph.D. & M.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2011) Harvard Graduate Society Dissertation Fellowship American Association of India Studies Dissertation Grant (Declined) Fulbright Foundation Dissertation Research Abroad Award J.D., , Cambridge, MA (2003) Finalist: Gary Bellow Public Service Award Recipient: Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Fellowship; Human Rights Program Fellowship Harvard Bureau, Harvard Law School Labor Law Project, Harvard Law School Prison Legal Assistance Project B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY (1998) summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa Alfred Marion Elsberg Prize in History Recipient: Institute for the Study of Human Rights Fellowship

III. PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS A. Authored Books GLOBALIZING CLASSICAL LEGAL THOUGHT: INDIA IN THE AGE OF COLONIALISM, 1757 - C.1914 (forthcoming Oxford University Press).

1 B. (Selected) Articles and Book Chapters A Rule of Proprietary Right for British India: From Revenue Settlement to Tenant Right in the Age of Classical Legal Thought, 15 MODERN ASIAN ST. 345 (2016). British 20th Century Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in South Asia, in THE PALGRAVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IMPERIALISM AND ANTI-IMPERIALISM 569 (Immanuel Ness & Zak Cope eds., 2015). “Wallerstein and the Political Economy of World Systems,” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia Of Imperialism And Anti-Imperialism 1178 (Immanuel Ness & Zak Cope eds., 2015). The TAFTA/TTIP and Treatment Access: What does the Agreement Mean for Intellectual Rights Over Essential Medicines?, in THE TRANSATLANTIC COLOSSUS: GLOBAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO BROADEN THE DEBATE ON THE EU-US FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 71 (David Cardoso, et al. eds., 2014). Revisiting Hallaq’s Sharīʿa: Between Legal Orientalism and a Rule of Islamic Law, 15 J. ISLAMIC LAW & CULTURE 44 (2014): 44.

The Political Economy of Energy in Pakistan: Perspectives from Balochistan’s Natural Gas Fields and the Port City of Gwadar, in GLOBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY IN ASIA, VOL. 3: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENERGY IN ASIA 133 (Zhiqun Zhu ed., 2014). The Promise and Paradox of Max Weber's Legal Sociology: The ‘Categories Of Legal Thought’ as Types of Meaningful Action and the Persistence of the Problem of Judicial Legislation, 20 S. CAL. INT. L.J. 249 (2011).

Minding the Timor Gap: Deep Sea Petroleum Exploration and a New Phase of Indonesia-East Timor Conflict, in REAL WORLD GLOBALIZATION: A READER IN BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS (Ravi Bhandari and Chris Sturr eds., 2009).

C. Works in Progress “Reframing the Access-Incentivization Debate: Drugs for the Developing World and the Crisis of Non-Communicable Disease” (in progress) “Non-Excludable Public Health Goods: Reviewing Non-Patent Based Approaches” (in progress) “Externalities and Equivocality: Property Rights and Internalizing the Cost of Carbon” (in progress) D. Works under Review “Property and its Rule (in Late Indo-Islamic and Early Colonial) South Asia: What’s in a Name?” (under review) 2

“Re-Thinking the Nineteenth-century Domestication of the Sharīʿa: Marriage and Family in the Imaginary of Classical Legal Thought and the Genealogy of (Muslim) Personal Law in Late Colonial India” (under review) D. (Selected) Book Reviews Review of Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi R. Hadiz, & Yoshiro Nakanishi, eds., 2014. Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia, 4 SOUTHEAST ASIAN ST. 605 (Dec. 2015). Review of Christian Lange, ed. Public Violence in Islamic Society: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries, CE, 10 INT. J. ASIAN ST. 221 (2013). Review of Anna Akasoy, ed. Islam and Tibet: Interactions Along the Musk Routes, 28 ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 343 (2013). E. Grants, Fellowships & Other Support Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2014) American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2012)

IV. (SELECTED) PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS “Translations and Transitions: Two Languages of Economic Science in Late Colonial India.” Paper presented for Transitions: The Eighth Three Societies Meeting for the History of Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Jun 2016). “Disputing Marriage and Family in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Mohammedan .” Paper for Workshop in the Global 19th Century, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History. Philadelphia, PA (October 2015).

“Re-Thinking the Nineteenth-century Domestication of the Sharīʿa: On Impossible States, the Genealogy of Classical Legal Thought, and Muslim Personal Law in Late Colonial India.” Paper presented for Islamic Law and Empire conference at the Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference, Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA (June 2015). “A Rule of Proprietary Right: Tenancy Legislation and Classical Legal Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century India.” Paper presented for University of , Department of History Seminar Series. Delhi, India (August 2014). “Purely a Civil ? Classical Legal Thought, Muslim Marriage and the Law of Conjugal Restitution in India, 1850-1930.” Paper presented at the European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Zurich. Zurich, CH (July 2014).

“Grounding Property: Land Control Practices in Developing South Asia.” Opening Remarks presented for the Property in South Asia: History, Politics, Law conference. 3 University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Philadelphia, PA (April 2014).

“Planning for What? Concepts and their Formalization in the Development of the Nehruvian Economic Idiom, 1930-1965.” Paper Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington, DC (January 2014).

“The Lessons of Legal Modernization in British India: Toward a Historical Ontological Approach to Jurisprudence.” Paper presented at Law, Culture and Morality: East and West conference. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Law. Champaign, IL (October 2013). “Understanding the Indian Contract Act of 1872.” Paper presented at Princeton University South Asian Studies Conference. Princeton, NJ (April 2013).

“The Discourse of ‘Proprietary Right’ in Colonial India: Baden-Powell as a Model of Classical Legal Thought.” Paper presented at Annual Conference on South Asia. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI (October 2012). “Family Law And The Limits Of The Will Theory: The Globalization Of Classical Legal Thought and Late Nineteenth-Century India.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Chicago, IL (May 2010).

V. TEACHING EXPERIENCE A. University of Arizona, James A. Rogers College of Law Fall 2016 Property, Social Justice and the Environment Spring 2017 Property B. University of Pennsylvania Lectures & Seminars Taught A History of Indian Business The Agrarian Question in Asia: A Chapter in the History of Economic Thought What is Property: Perspectives from the Historical Worlds of South Asia

History and Colonial Modernity: Problems and Perspectives from British Imperial Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East

Comparing Turko-Islamic Imperial Styles in West and South Asia, 1500-1800 Introduction to Modern India Spring

4 Law and the Colonial Encounter in the Indian Subcontinent, c. 1726-1947 India and the Imagination of Classical Political Economy Graduate/Independent Study Supervised Undergraduate Research Paper, “Disaffection, Disloyalty and Seditious Intent: The Role of Tilak’s 1897 Trial in the Development of Sedition Law.”

Graduate (PhD) Student Independent Coursework on “Readings in he History of Economics.”

Graduate (PhD) Student, MA Qualifying Exam Field Preparation in the “History of Modern South Asia.” C. Harvard University Teaching Fellow The Making of Modern South Asia

Post-Colonial Narratives Moral Reasoning About Social Protest Tutorial Instructor

HIST 97: Research Methods in History HIST 98: Non-European Participants in the First World War

The Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective

VI. (SELECTED) LEGAL & ADVOCACY EXPERIENCE Public Accountability Initiative’s www.littlesis.org 2008-Present Board Member for PAI’s collaboratively edited social networking style website aimed at creating a community of citizen researchers profiling the intersections between industry and government in the United States.

Labaton Sucharow LLP New York, NY 2012 Contract attorney working on class action suit involving securities fraud litigation in the context of mutual funds invested in asset backed commercial paper.

Edwards, Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP Boston MA 2006-2007 Contract attorney working on discovery-stage document review relating to SEC investigation of improper compensation polices relating to stock options backdating by major telecommunications infrastructure corporation.

Professor Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA 2004-2005 5 Research Assistant for book project on access to in the wake of the Bollinger affirmative action decisions. Goldstein & Feuer, LLP Cambridge, MA 2003-2005 Contract Attorney for small community-based firm focused on labor, civil rights, and non- profit law. Researched and drafted pretrial motions, discovery requests, memoranda of law and fact in landlord-tenant, family law, and first amendment matters.

Harvard Law School Legal Aid Bureau, Cambridge, MA 2001-2003 Student attorney for indigent clients in the areas of family law, welfare and unemployment benefits, and housing law. Co-coordinator of Bureau’s Community Outreach Committee. East Timor and Indonesia Action Network, Washington, DC 2000-2006 Member and Representative to Steering Committee for grassroots chapter-based national network lobbying and advocating around issues of legal and political accountability relating to human rights abuses in Southeast Asian archipelago.

Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid Karachi, Pakistan 2001 Summer legal associate for public interest litigation cases relating to domestic violence and children’s rights. Field research with organization’s lead human trafficking specialist.

VII. SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE Society for the Advancement of South Asian History (2013-Present) Secretary and Treasurer for American Historical Association Affiliate

South Asia Center Alumni Consultant, University of Pennsylvania (2015-2016) Asian Studies and a Twenty-First Century Curriculum, Columbia University Law School (2008-09) Visiting Scholars Program Coordinator Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2001-02) Law Student Representative to Committee on Employment & Contracting Policy

VIII. MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association

American Society of

Association of Asian Studies

European Association of South Asia Studies

New York/Massachusetts/District of Columbia

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