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Shamshad Pasarlay is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division (2023-2024) at the University of Chicago, where he teach courses in comparative constitutional studies as well as the BA seminar in the Program in Law, Letters, and Society (LLSO). Previously, he was a lecturer at Herat University School of Law and Political Science in Afghanistan and was visiting research fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore in 2019. Shamshad’s research interests are in the areas of comparative constitutional studies, institutional design in post-conflict divided societies, Islamic constitutionalism, and Islamic law.
His forthcoming book (under contract with Cambridge University Press) explores how conflict-prone intensely divided societies may adopt a workable constitutional design under deeply turbulent political conditions. Shamshad has worked extensively in the area of legal reform in Afghanistan with many international rule of law organizations and is currently a part-time consultant with the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law. He received his BA in Islamic studies from Kabul University (2010) and an LLM and PhD in comparative constitutional studies from the University of Washington (2016).
Selected Publications
Shamshad Pasarlay, ‘Public Participation in the Constitution-Making Process: The Afghan Experiment‘ (2024) 49 (1) Brooklyn Journal of International Law 50