Ari Schriber

Ari Schriber is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University specializing in Islamic law and colonial legal systems. His research reconstructs 20th-century Islamic legal traditions in North Africa through archival analysis.

Education includes a PhD from Harvard University and postdoctoral work at University of Toronto. Research focuses on:

• Convergence of Islamic and colonial legal systems
• Court practices in French Morocco
• Post-colonial state formation

Publications examine judicial procedures and legal transformations, employing interdisciplinary methods combining historical texts with statistical analysis.

Honors include prestigious fellowships from Fulbright, AIMMS, and the European Commission. Current project 'Quantifying Islamic Law' employs text analysis of over 1000 shari'a court judgments.

Teaches graduate seminars on Islamic legal traditions and comparative law methodologies.