Total Publications: 7
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    Technology and the Metamorphosis of Humanity

    After decades of writing legal articles, I feel the urge to retrieve my previous academic life in Philosophy, especially in the areas of logic, ethics and technology. My interest in technology was reignited recently by the widespread national conversation about the pandemic and the implications of the introduction of a new generation of vaccines, namely ones that use mRNA technology.

    • Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, v. 28, no. 2, pp. 399-403 (Wiley-Blackwell 2013)
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    Remembering Hypatia’s Birth: It Took a Village

    • Religion in American Public Life: Living with Our Deepest Differences, with Jean Elshtain and Charles Haynes, pp. 62-95 (Norton Press, 2001). Introduction, 15 J. L. & Religion [xi] (2000-2001).
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    Standing at the Precipice: Faith in the Age of Science and Technology

    We discussed earlier that strand of European liberalism that reached our shores and influenced our constitutional views on the separation of church and state. This tradition was based on several assumptions. As pointed out, among them is the assumption that individuals could seal themselves off into compartments to be believers one moment, good citizens the next. Another is the assumption that religion is retrograde, that it will be overtaken by reason.

    • 179 pages (University Press of America, 1978).
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    Deontic Logic: A Comprehensive Appraisal and a New Proposal

    Deontic logic, also referred to as the logic of obligation, is a relatively new branch of logic.1 The first attempt at constructing a formal system of deontic logic was made by Ernst Mally in 1926.2 Since then, several attempts followed, of which the most notable is that of G. H. van Wright in his classic paper “Deontic Logic”, published in 1951.3 Von Wright’s paper prompted a lot of reaction in the field and has influenced work in deontic logic ever since.4

    • Mothering: Essays in Feminist Theory, ed. Joyce Trebilcot, pp. 81-93 (Roman & Allanheld 1983)
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    Reproduction, Mothering and the Origins of Patriarchy

    This essay is an attempt to explain the origins, development, and forms of patriarchal behavior and institutions. The essay accepts as its starting point the general human fear of death and the desire for continuity or immortality. It places this fear and desire in the context of the male’s experience of the world, and argues that it is this context which ultimately leads to the emergence of patriarchy.

  • On Being a Muslim Corporate Lawyer

    It is not easy for me to discern the ways in which my faith has informed my professional life. I have been shielded from this awareness for most of my adult life by thick layers of subconscious denial. The interesting antecedent question thus becomes: “Why did I feel the need to deny, to shield myself from a recognition of the relationship between my faith and my profession?” Upon reflection, the puzzling answer I settle upon is: “Because I am trying to be a good American Muslim.”

    • 31 University of Richmond Law Review 1399 (December, 1997).
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    The American Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Future Forms of Structure and Governance

    The last few decades have ushered in many changes and challenges to the American corporation. Foremost among these is the Technetronic or Information Revolution, which paradoxically not only shrank the world (the macrocosm) into a “global village,”‘ but at the same time expanded the individual human experience (the microcosm) exponentially. This dual action has created the new Global Economic Order, as well as the sphere of customized industrial production.