Karen Lugo is a constitutional law consultant, specializing in First Amendment and civil liberties law. When living in California, she was Co-Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence Center and she was a clinical visiting and adjunct professor at Chapman University School of Law where she co-taught the advanced Constitutional Law Clinic. Karen has co-authored and written circuit-level and Supreme Court amicus briefs on such issues as FISA Surveillance, Healthcare Reform, Arizona’s Border Security, Gay Marriage, The Ten Commandments, Eminent Domain, Christian Clubs on University Campuses, and Material Support for Terrorists. She teaches classes on the Constitution for educators and students across the country.

Karen is the founder of the Libertas-West Project, a center for study Islamic integration and radicalization issues. She has written: Mosques in America: A Guide to Accountable Permit Hearings and Continuing Citizen Oversight.

Karen writes and speaks for European and American groups on the importance of basing assimilation efforts on principles of Western exceptionalism. She presented a policy brief to the French Conseil d’Etat analyzing the legal implications of banning the burqa. Ms. Lugo has written one of the most comprehensive overviews of sharia law in American courts, American Family Law and Sharia-Compliant Marriages, for the Federalist Society law journal, Engage. She has written several white papers on the American Law for American Courts legislation and sharia tribunals in America. Ms. Lugo recently wrote an amicus brief, with other Clarity Coalition Muslim leaders, to the Texas Supreme Court on a Texas sharia-based marriage and divorce. The case was subsequently removed from the Dallas-area Islamic (Fiqh/Sharia) Tribunal to civil court.

Ms. Lugo was an appointee to the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She also taught a Human Rights law course on the contrast between French and English Enlightenment theories in Strasbourg, France.

Until moving from California, Ms. Lugo was a member of the David Horowitz Freedom Center Board of Directors. She was also a regular guest on the Orange County PBS local issues debate program, Inside OC, and she is a contributor to Pajamas Media, National Review Online, City Journal, American Spectator, American Greatness, Townhall.com, American Thinker, Daily Caller, and Family Security Matters. She has been interviewed by dozens of radio hosts and has spoken for civic groups on constitutional and cultural concerns.