Wael B. Hallaq is a Palestinian-American scholar of Islamic studies and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and political thought since 2009. He is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies, and has been described as one of the world's leading authorities on Islamic law.

Hallaq has published more than a dozen books and 80 articles on topics including law, legal theory, philosophy, political