Dr. Zachary Calo | Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Zachary R. Calo

Dr. Zachary Calo


Professor
College of Law

  • Phone+974-4454-1938
  • Office locationRoom C.03.018, Third Floor, College of Islamic Studies Building

Biography

Zachary R. Calo is a Professor of Law and Founding Professor at the College of Law, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2015. He is also a Professor of Law (adjunct) at the University of Notre Dame Australia, a Visiting Professor at The Open University (UK), a Central Asia Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at Tashkent State University of Law (Uzbekistan), an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, and a Lecturer at the Qatar Olympic Academy. Before joining the faculty at HBKU, he was a Professor of Law and Sywgert Research Scholar at Valparaiso University School of Law in the United States, where he also taught at Notre Dame Law School and DePaul College of Law. He began his legal career as an Associate Attorney with BuckleySandler, LLP in Washington, DC and is currently a Senior Counsel with McNair International and of Counsel Sports Law at Schelstraete Equine Law. He serves on international dispute resolution panels with Sport Resolutions UK and the Qatar Sports Arbitration Tribunal. A CEDR-certified mediator, he is an Officer of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association and a member of the Ethics Committee of the International Mediation Institute.

 


Research Interests

  • Sports Law
  • Mediation
  • Arbitration
  • Religion and Law

Experience

Professor of Law and Swygert Research Fellow

Valparaiso University Law School

2007-2014

Education

LLM

Pepperdine School of Law, Los Angeles, USA

2021
  • MA

    The University of Virginia

    2020
  • PhD

    The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    2007
  • JD

    The University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, USA

    2005
  • MA

    The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    1997
  • BA

    The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    1997

Selected Publications

  • Christianity, Ethics, and the Law

    Zachary Calo, Joshua Neoh and Keith Thompso, eds. Routledge

    2021
  • Agape, Justice, and Law

    Zachary Calo and Robert Cochran, eds Cambridge University Press

    2021
  • Developments in Online Dispute Resolution in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries, Forthcoming, John Marshall Law Journal

    2021
  • Islam, Europe, and the Problem of Peace,

    in Dawid Bunikowski and Alberto Puppo eds., Critical Philosophy on Law, Religion, and Peace (Springer)

    2020
  • Law, Religion, and the Detraditionalization of Europe

    LAW, RELIGION, AND TRADITION, Jessica Giles, Andrea Pin and Frank Ravitch, eds. (Springer)

    2019
  • The Secularity of Law and the Freedom From Religion,

    Forthcoming in Freedom of and for Religion: Conceptualization a Common Right, Cole Durham, Javier Martinez-Torrón & Donlu Thayer, eds. (Routledge)

    2018
  • Law, Religion, and Secular Order

    Journal of Law, Religion, and State

    2017