Lama Abu-Odeh

Lama Abu-Odeh ( _ar. لمى أبو عوده) is a Palestinian-American professor and author, who teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center. She has written extensively on Islamic law, feminism, and family law.

Abu-Odeh was born in Amman, Jordan in 1962. She earned her LL.B. from the University of Jordan, her LL.M. from the University of Bristol, England, her MAdn from the University of York, England, and her S.J.D. from Harvard University.

She has taught at Stanford Law School and worked for the World Bank's Middle East/North Africa division. She currently teaches at Georgetown University Law Center.

Abu-Odeh has also written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has voiced support for a bi-national solution, or the creation of one state in Israel/Palestine.

References

* [http://imeu.net/news/article005781.shtml Profile of Lama Abu-Odeh at the Institute for Middle East Understanding]
* [http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/facinfo/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&ID=1556 Georgetown Law Full-Time Faculty Biography]
* [http://bostonreview.net/BR26.6/abu-odeh.html "The Case for Bi-Nationalism: Why one state — liberal and constitutionalist — may be the key to peace in the Middle East", The Boston Review, December 2001-January 2002]