Zaid Al-Ali is a constitutional scholar, specialising in Arab/Middle East constitutional reform. He has been practicing law since 1999, specializing in international commercial arbitration and comparative constitutional law. He has law degrees from Harvard Law School, the Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), and King’s College London. He started practicing international arbitration in 1999. From 2005 to 2010, he was a legal adviser to the United Nations focusing on constitutional, parliamentary, and judicial reform in Iraq. Since the beginning of 2011, he has been working on constitutional reform throughout the Arab region, in particular in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Sudan. He has published widely on Iraq and on constitutional law.

Zaid has published widely in the international press, including in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, al-Jazeera and al-Hayat, among many others. He is also quoted regularly in the international press on Iraqi developments and on constitutional reform issues in the Arab region, including in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the BBC, National Public Radio, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, amongst many others. He has contributed a large number of chapters to edited volumes on constitutional law and on reform efforts in the Middle East. He has lectured and spoken on these same issues at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, Chatham House, Edinburgh University, the University of Chicago, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York University, amongst many others.

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