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Co-authored an op-ed article on immigration reform in
Truthout, June 21, 2012.
Published an op-ed article “Selective Counterterrorism
Practices Threaten Social Mobility of American Muslims”
published in The American Muslim, June 20, 2012.
Co-authored an op-ed article “To Stop Corruption,
Egypt Needs a Freedom of Information Law,” published
in The Huffington Post, May, 23, 2012.
Published “From the Oppressed to the Terrorist:
American Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of
Intersectionality,” in the Hastings Race and Poverty Law
Journal (Spring 2012).
Published “Caught in a Preventive Dragnet: Selective
Counterterrorism in a Post-9/11 America,” in the
Gonzaga Law Review (Winter 2011/Spring 2012).
Activities: Presented Egypt’s draft constitution at the
conference The Arab Spring and Constitutionalism in
the Middle East at Fordham Law School, New York City,
N.Y., Nov. 18, 2012.
Testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on
Federal Civil Rights Engagement with Arab and Muslim
Communities, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2012.
Presented on a panel, Rule of Law in Egypt: Rhetoric
or Reality, at the Georgetown University Law Center,
Oct. 10, 2012.
Participated in an invitation-only meeting with Egyptian
President Mohammed Morsi in New York City about
Egypt’s transition to democracy, Oct. 3, 2012.
Participated on the panel Targeted Killings Abroad,
Arrests at Home with Professor Greg McNeal of
Pepperdine Law School at Texas Wesleyan School of
Law, Sept. 27, 2012.
Testified before the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission on Religious Discrimination
Against Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians Post-9/11,
Washington, D.C., July 27, 2012.
Interviewed on Nile TV about current developments in
Egypt, June 23, 2012.
Interviewed on RT America in connection with a
recent lawsuit filed in New Jersey challenging the
constitutionality of the NYPD’s systematic spying of
Muslims, Muslim student associations, and Muslim
owned businesses, June 7, 2012.
Interviewed at the Brookings Institution U.S. Islamic
Forum in Doha, Qatar, May 29-31, 2012.
Attended the Brookings Institution’s U.S. Islamic World
Forum in Doha, Qatar, where she participated in a
working group addressing adverse consequences of
counterterrorism laws on the philanthropic sector in the
United States and the Middle East, May 29-31, 2012.
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Interviewed on St. Louis radio station WGNU 920
AM, where she discussed the latest developments in
Egypt’s presidential elections and counterterrorism
policy in the United States, May 2012.
Interviewed on The Marc Steiner Radio Show discussing
questions about the balance between free speech and
national security, April 24, 2012.
Presented “Terror(izing) the Muslim Veil” at Critical
Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images and
Representations, UC Berkeley Boalt Law School,
Berkeley, Calif., April 20, 2012.
Presented at the spring conference — After Afghanistan:
Where To From Here? — at Center on Law, Ethics and
National Security, Duke Law School, Durham, N.C.,
April 13, 2012.
Presented on the panel, Intersection and Divergence
of Interests: Coalition Building Among People of Color
Communities, at the 2012 Southeast/Southwest People
of Color Scholarship Conference — Transformative
Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse
— at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University,
Birmingham, Ala., March 29, 2012.
Interviewed about the murders of Trayvon Martin and
Shaima Al Awadi for the television news channel Russia
Today, March 28, 2012.
Presented on the panel Preparing for Egypt’s Presidential
Elections and the Transition to Civilian Rule, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., March 26, 2012.
Interviewed on the television news channel Russia Today
about the New Jersey attorney general’s investigation
into the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims in universities,
mosques and businesses, March 24, 2012.
Mark Burge
Associate Professor of Law
Activities: Along with Texas Wesleyan law professors
Cynthia Alkon, Maxine Harrington and James McGrath,
participated as a facilitator during the conference
Reforming and Renewing the Education of Profession:
An Interactive Vision of Professionalism, which was coorganized
by the law school, the UNT Texas College
of Osteopathic Medicine, the TCU Harris College of
Nursing and Health Sciences, and Brite Divinity School.
The event was held in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 21, 2012.
Presented “Too Clever by Half: A Cautionary Tale
in Socio-Legal Legitimacy Starring the Uniform
Commercial Code” at the Seventh International
Conference on Contracts, Thomas Jefferson School of
Law, San Diego, Calif., March 3, 2012.