Teaching & Academic
Train the next generation of American lawyers in Islamic Law.
Jalal teaches at two of Michigan's law schools, where he built the Islamic Law course from the ground up. If you're a student, a dean, or a firm that wants this literacy in your room, the door is open.
Teaching Philosophy
A working literacy, not a tour.
Students don't leave with trivia. They leave with the capacity to read a contract, a case, or a client through a lens most of their peers will never have, and to do it without condescension and without apology.
Reading lists are heavy on primary sources. Discussion is rigorous but never combative. The goal is not to admire the tradition. The goal is to use it.
"Cultural competence is no longer optional in legal practice. It is a baseline."
Current Appointments
Sit in. Or bring it to your school.
Aug 2024, Present
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Islamic Law
A new course, built from scratch, that gives students the foundation and the tools to practice law with cultural competence in a world that no longer makes that optional.
Aug 2023, Present
Wayne State University Law School
Islamic Law
Not a survey of an exotic tradition, a working literacy in a legal system that touches more clients, more contracts, and more courtrooms every year.
Academic Focus
What gets taught
- 01Islamic intellectual thought
- 02Law & ethics
- 03Leadership studies
- 04Comparative legal frameworks
- 05Faith-based analysis of modern legal questions
- 06Culturally competent legal practice