The Carnegie Corporation has been awarding Fellowships to scholars studying different aspects of Islam and the Islamic world over the past half-dozen years; the 2008 winners are here, and include New York Law School professor Sadiq Reza. Past law faculty winners include Khaled About el Fadl (UCLA), Noah Feldman (Harvard), Clark Lombardi (Washington/Seattle), Kristen Stilt (Northwestern), Aziz Huq (who will join the University of Chicago faculty next year), and Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis).
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