Lama Abu-Odeh

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Lama Abu-Odeh is a Palestinian-American professor and author, who teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center. She has written extensively on Islamic law, feminism, and family law.

Abu-Odeh was born in Amman, Jordan in 1962. She earned her LL.B. from the University of Jordan, her LL.M. from the University of Bristol, England, her MA^{[disambiguation needed]} from the University of York, England, and her S.J.D. from Harvard University.

She has taught at Stanford Law School and worked for the World Bank's Middle East/North Africa division. She currently teaches at Georgetown University Law Center.

Abu-Odeh has also written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has voiced support for a bi-national solution, or the creation of one state in Israel/Palestine.

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• Profile of Lama Abu-Odeh at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
• Georgetown Law Full-Time Faculty Biography
• The Case for Bi-Nationalism: Why one state — liberal and constitutionalist — may be the key to peace in the Middle East, The Boston Review, December 2001-January 2002