# Kristen Stilt Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program ![12.4.14stilt0305x7highres.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/cmes/files/12.4.14stilt0305x7highres.jpeg?itok=cJcsLkBO) location\_on Griswold, Room 300 smartphone [617-496-4446](tel:617-496-4446) email laptop\_windows [Harvard Law School](http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10852/Stilt/courses) **Kristen Stilt** is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Animal Law & Policy Program, Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change, and is a Deputy Dean. Stilt was named a Carnegie Scholar for her work on Constitutional Islam, and in 2013 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has also received awards from Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays. She received a JD from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the *Texas Law Review* and co-editor-in-chief of the *Texas Journal of Women in the Law*. She also has a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Her research focuses on animal law, and in particular the intersection of animal law and religious law; Islamic law and society; and comparative constitutional law. Publications include *Islamic Law in Action* (Oxford University Press, 2011); “Constitutional Innovation and Animal Protection in Egypt,” *Law & Social Inquiry* (forthcoming); “Contextualizing Constitutional Islam: The Malaysian Experience,” *International Journal of Constitutional Law* (2005); “Animals,” in the *Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law* (Oxford University Press, 2017), with Jessica Eisen; and “Animals,” in *The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law*, eds. Anver Emon and Rumee Ahmed (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently working on a new book project entitled *Halal Animals*. - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) [Other Faculty](/people/other-faculty) - ## Research by Field [Law](/research-field/law)