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David Mednicoff
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Secondary Phone: (413) 545-3536
Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
741 Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Drive
Amherst MA 01003
United States
ABOUT
Trained as a lawyer and political scientist (Harvard JD/PhD), I work on legal politics across the MENA and Chair the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Discipline
Law
Sub Areas
Comparative
Human Rights
Islamic Law
Middle East/Near East Studies
Public Policy
Arab Studies
Gulf Studies
Maghreb Studies
Modern
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Islamic World
Maghreb
Arabian Peninsula
Specialties
ME Comp Pol
ME Law
US For Pol In MENA
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (fluent)
German (fluent)
Hebrew (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2007 | Political Science | Harvard
JD | 1989 | Law | Harvard
Abstracts
The Rule of Law in the Arab Gulf: Contested Meanings and Social Change Legal Practitioners in Qatar and the Gulf: Agents of Stability, Change or Both? From Foreign Text to Local Meaning: The Politics of Transnational Constitutional Borrowing in the Contemporary MENA Refugee Governance at the Intersection of Transnational and Local Actors- Lessons for Contested Political Spaces of the MENA?