Mohannad and Rana Malas Lecture in Islamic Legal Studies Presented by Professor Rabiat Akande

In Solidarity: Malcom X, Human Rights, and Muslim Anti-Imperialism presented by Rabiat Akande, Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law

Rabiat Akande joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2024 and was appointed as the 2025 Wilson H. Elkins Professor by the University System of Maryland. She works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, international law, and (post)colonial African law and society.
Professor Akande is the author of Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2023), a work that has received several honors including Special Mention, the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Book Prize; Honorable Mention, the Canadian Law and Society Association Wesley Pue Book Prize; and Finalist, African Studies Association Book Prize. Professor Akande was awarded the American Society of International Law's Francis Deak Prize in 2025 for her article "An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law," published in the American Journal of International Law. Professor Akande has authored several other works, including "Centering the Black Muslimah: An Agenda for Intersectionalizing the Study of Islamophobia" in Anver Emon, ed., Systemic Islamophobia (University of Toronto Press, 2023), a volume named to The Hill Times' 100 Best Books of 2023.

Advanced registration is required to attend this event.
Dinner reception to follow program.