Samy Ayoub

Associate Professor of Law, University of Texas

Samy Ayoub specializes in Islamic law, modern Middle East law, and law and religion in contemporary Muslim societies. He focuses on issues concerning the interaction between religion and law and on the role of religion in contemporary legal and sociopolitical systems within a global comparative perspective. He has pursued training in both law and Islamic Studies in Egypt, Scotland, and the United States. Dr. Ayoub was selected as a fellow in the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School (fall 2021). He was also chosen as a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2018–19). He served as president of the Islamic law section of the American Association of Law Schools for 2018–19, and he is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Law in the Middle East by LexisNexis and Arab Law Quarterly. Before joining the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Ayoub was a postdoctoral faculty fellow (2014–15) at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he was nominated by the student body to receive the Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award.