https://www.jeffreyaredding.org/about daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cff6f811f7792c6030d2a1/1624242076916-TJSHB4GNTO0DJ0F2OGKW/JeffRedding_013_High_Resolution.jpg About I currently teach Social Equality Law and Legaltech (focused on emerging AI technologies) at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon where I am also the Equality Law Coordinator of the NOVA Center for the Study of Gender, Family, and the Law. I have also previously taught Contemporary Challenges to the Rule of Law at NOVA School of Law. I am an experienced researcher, educator, and administrator with substantial experience in the NGO, human rights, and technology sectors including work developing advanced AI legal models. Over the past two decades, I have researched and taught around the world, often collaborating with local NGOs. I have worked in the United States, Pakistan, India, France, Australia, Portugal, and Egypt. I have held research fellowships at Yale Law School (Oscar M. Ruebhausen program), Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Program), and Columbia Law School (Center for the Study of Law and Culture). Earlier in my career, I taught law in Pakistan while a recipient of a fellowship from the U.S. Fulbright Foundation and recently served as Dean and Professor of the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. I am also the recent co-recipient of a Law and Society Association (LSA) Global Collaboration Grant and used this substantial grant to convene a Lahore-based workshop in late 2023 facilitating connections between global LSA networks and local communities of sociolegal researchers on South Asia. My substantial publication record includes the monograph A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India (University of Washington Press, Global South Asia series, 2020) and serving as co-editor of Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond (Anthem Press, 2022). I am also the coeditor along with Claire Pamment of a 2025 special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press) on “Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia: Moving with, against, and beyond the State.” I am available for short and long-term consultancies for organizations working in the areas of law, gender, or religion and am interested too in senior management and leadership roles within the NGO, human rights, and technology sectors. As a lifelong educator, I am also interested in research and teaching roles within universities. To email me, use jeffredding at the rate of gmail dot com. https://www.jeffreyaredding.org/a-secular-need daily 0.75 2022-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cff6f811f7792c6030d2a1/1624244944929-LLTK82C17HIM1CU8WDNX/Redding+-+A+Secular+Need+-+Front+Cover+-+High-Res.jpg A Secular Need - “[W]hat if we view the state as less sanctimonious vis-à-vis society than insecure? In addition, what if the secular state’s moments of feverish emotionality are a result of its cognizance, perhaps covert, that in state-society relations it is society that holds the upper hand? Or, in scientific terms, what if the story here is less about simultaneity and correlation and more about causation? Or, alternatively, in artistic terms . . . what if state-society relations were best captured, not in the canvas arts and portraiture, but in the dramatic arts and tragedy? In short, what if secular need undergirds the secular state’s hatred and love of the Islamic non-state? Or put another way altogether, what if the state is not an aloof or impervious state but, rather, a feeling and vulnerable state? Indeed, a feeling state is one that does not simply ‘dialect’ with the non-state in a back-and-forth ‘contest’ that has all the dynamism of a game of tic-tac-toe but, rather, a state that finds a certain kind of ineluctability in its non-state interlocutor, but antagonism and amour too.” Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.jeffreyaredding.org/publication-list daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://www.jeffreyaredding.org/home daily 1.0 2025-08-14 https://www.jeffreyaredding.org/lectures-talks daily 0.75 2024-05-31 https://www.jeffreyaredding.org/queerreligious daily 0.75 2024-09-23