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Lama Abu-Odeh (Arabic: لمى أبو عودة, born 1962) is a Palestinian-American professor and author who teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center. She has written on Islamic law, feminism, and family law.
Abu-Odeh was born in Amman, Jordan. She is the daughter of Adnan Abu-Odeh, a former senator in the Jordanian House of Parliament and ambassador. She earned her LL.B. from the University of Jordan, her LL.M. from the University of Bristol, England, her MA from the University of York, England, and her S.J.D. from Harvard University. She has taught at Stanford Law School and worked for the World Bank's Middle East/North Africa division.
Abu-Odeh has also written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has voiced support for binationalism and a one-state solution.
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- Profile of Lama Abu-Odeh at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Georgetown Law Full-Time Faculty Biography
- The Case for Bi-Nationalism: Why one state — liberal and constitutionalist — may be the key to peace in the Middle East, The Boston Review, December 2001-January 2002
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