Lena Salaymeh is British Academy Global Professor in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (University of Oxford) and Professor in the Section des Sciences Religieuses of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris Sciences et Lettres). Salaymeh is a scholar of law and history, with specializations in Islamic jurisprudence, Jewish jurisprudence, and critical theory. She received a Guggenheim fellowship and her first book, *The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions*, received the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Textual Studies. She received her JD from Harvard and her PhD in Legal and Islamic History from UC Berkeley.