The International Relations Council Presents: A Conversation with Professor Zaid Al-Ali

Free & Open to the Public

Professor Al-Ali will be joining us for a conversation discussing his career in international relations, his work at present, and what different paths within the field can look like. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the discussion.

Zaid Al-Ali is an independent scholar and a lawyer.  He specializes in constitutional negotiations, peace negotiations and commercial arbitration.  His primary field of academic interest is comparative constitutional law and constitutional negotiations in Arab-majority countries (also known as the Middle East). His legal practice tends to focus on disputes in the energy sector. He is widely considered to be among the leading experts on Iraq, on Arab constitutions, and on conflict dynamics in the Arab region.  He has published widely on comparative constitutional law and on Iraq. In addition to the above, Zaid has taught at Princeton University, Sciences-Po (Paris), the University of Carthage (Tunis) and the Central European University (Budapest).  Zaid was a fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) from 2019 to 2020.  He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, etc.