Asma Uddin

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Asma T. Uddin is an attorney, writer, and editor. She has several years of experience practicing corporate litigation at various large law firms. In addition, she has handled a significant number of pro bono cases, including asylum, prisoner's civil rights, constitutional, and employment discrimination cases. Most recently, she played an integral role in a case brought by a Muslim policewoman against the City of Philadelphia for its refusal to allow the plaintiff to wear the Muslim headscarf on the job. Currently, she works on international religious freedom matters with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Altmuslimah, a partner site to altmuslim.com dedicated to compelling comment on gender in Islam. She has also worked with Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah on a number of articles for scholarly journals on Islamic Law, and helped edit the entire manuscript of Dr. Abd-Allah's A Muslim in Victorian America, which was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. As Associate Editor and legal columnist for Islamica magazine, Asma focused her writings on how American Muslims can rethink their social position within the American legal framework. Her more scholarly work has been published in the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion and The Review of Faith & International Affairs.