Asma T. Uddin is an Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law, where she teaches Constitutional Law II and International Human Rights. Her scholarship focuses on religious liberty, constitutional theory, and judicial rhetoric, with particular attention to how courts can use opinion writing to foster depolarization and inclusive constitutional cultures.

Professor Uddin’s publications include When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom(Pegasus/Simon & Schuster, 2019), The Politics of Vulnerability: Today’s Threat to Religion and Religious Freedom(Pegasus/Simon & Schuster, 2021), and numerous law review articles that apply social science theories to constitutional interpretation and judicial communication. Her recent work has appeared in the William & Mary Law Review, BYU Law Review, Wayne Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review Reflections, and Michigan Journal of Race & Law, among others.

Before joining MSU Law, Professor Uddin was a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for the Constitution and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America. She has also taught the religious liberty clinic at Harvard Law School. Earlier in her career, she served as Legal Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where she litigated domestic and international cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Indonesian Constitutional Court.

In addition to her academic work, Professor Uddin is a Fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program and the Freedom Forum Institute. Her research on religious liberty and depolarization has been supported by the Lilly Endowment, Fetzer Institute, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Templeton Religion Trust. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative, was a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served two terms as an expert advisor on international religious freedom to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Professor Uddin also writes widely for public audiences. Her opinion pieces and essays on religion, rights, and political polarization have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, The Dispatch, and other outlets.

Professor Uddin is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where she was on The University of Chicago Law Review.

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