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Lama Abu-Odeh

Lama Abu-Odeh

Palestinian-American professor and author


Lama Abu-Odeh (Arabic: لمى أبو عودة, born 1962) is a Palestinian-American professor and author who teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center. She has written on Islamic law, feminism, and family law.[citation needed]

Early life and education

Abu-Odeh was born in Amman, Jordan. She is the daughter of Adnan Abu-Odeh, a former senator in the Jordanian House of Parliament and ambassador.[1] She earned her LL.B. from the University of Jordan, her LL.M. from the University of Bristol, England, her MA from the University of York, England, and her S.J.D. from Harvard University.[citation needed] She has taught at Stanford Law School and worked for the World Bank's Middle East/North Africa division.[citation needed]

Abu-Odeh has also written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has voiced support for binationalism and a one-state solution.[2]


References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-07-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)



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