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Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Assistant Professor of Law
Email: Tabatha.Abuelhaj@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4738
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 233 |
Education
Ph.D., New York University
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
J.D., magna cum laude, New York University School of Law
B.A., magna cum laude, Haverford College
Tabatha Abu El-Haj's principal interests include constitutional law (specifically, First Amendment and election law), popular constitutionalism, administrative law, and the sociology of law.
Professor Abu El-Haj's publications include "The Neglected Right of Assembly," in the UCLA Law Review, "Book Review: The Calligraphic State: Conceptualizing the Study of Society through Law," in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and "Armed Conflict: The Protection of Children under International Law," (with C. Hamilton), in the International Journal of Children's Rights.
Professor Abu El-Haj received her doctorate in Law and Society from New York University. Her dissertation, "Changing the People: Transformations in American Democracy (1880-1930)," documents the rise of municipal ordinances requiring permits for public assemblies and argues that American democracy was transformed in the 20th century as the nature of state regulation of democratic politics changed.
She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Furman Fellow and graduated Order of the Coif.
Before entering law school, Professor Abu El-Haj evaluated local and national education reform projects with Research for Action in Philadelphia and conducted research for the Children's Legal Centre in Colchester, U.K.
She clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of U. S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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10/12/2009
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