Total Publications: 4
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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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.”