Nimer Sultany is Reader in Public Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining SOAS, he was the director of the Political Monitoring Project at Mada al-Carmel- The Arab Centre for Applied Social Research. He published extensively on constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and Israeli jurisprudence. His book: "Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (Oxford University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Book Prize awarded by the International Society of Public Law and the 2018 Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars.