Wael Hallaq

Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and intellectual history since 2009.
He has written more than eighty scholarly articles and over a dozen books, treating logic, legal history, the modern state, and moral philosophy, within an overarching intellectual project concerned with the critique of modernity. Hallaq’s work has won many distinguished awards and is widely debated around the world, with books, dissertations, and articles devoted to the study and analysis of his writings. His life and work have been featured in many symposia, talk shows, and documentaries by major media outlets. Most of his books and articles have been translated into multiple languages, including French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Arabic, Albanian, Turkish, Kurdish, Persian, Urdu, Russian, and Bengali.