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title: 'Professor Das Acevedo Featured on BBC & Scroll.in'
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# Professor Das Acevedo Featured on BBC & Scroll.in

![Professor Deepa Das Acevedo, The University of Alabama School of Law](https://www.law.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/archive/main/Das-Acevedo-Deepa-e1627163545149.jpeg)

[Professor Deepa Das Acevedo](/directory/People/view/Deepa_Das_Acevedo) was quoted in a BBC article titled *Karnataka bandh: Should courts decide if hijab is essential in Islam.* The full [piece can be viewed online at BBC.com.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60748012)

Professor Das Acevedo also recently published an op-ed titled *Hijab ban: How courts have weaponised the Essential Religious Practices doctrine.* [Read the full article on Scroll.in](https://scroll.in/article/1018319/hijab-ban-how-courts-have-weaponised-the-essential-religious-practices-doctrine).