David Mednicoff

Dr. David Mednicoff is trained as a lawyer and political scientist and holds a BA from Princeton, and MA, JD and PhD (Political Science) degrees from Harvard. He is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. His teaching and publications focus on intersections of comparative legal ideas, institutions, politics, and public policy in the Middle East, and especially, the Arab Gulf and North Africa. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of the rule of law across the Arab world, and a new project on diverse regional legal policy approaches to the global refugee crisis.