I currently teach Legaltech (focused on emerging AI technologies) at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon where I have also previously taught Contemporary Challenges to the Rule of Law and Social Equality Law.
I am an experienced researcher, educator, and administrator with substantial experience in the human rights and technology sectors including work developing advanced AI legal models. I have researched and taught around the world, often collaborating with local NGOs. I have worked in the United States, Pakistan, India, Egypt, France, Germany, Australia, and Portugal. I have held research fellowships at Yale Law School (Oscar M. Ruebhausen program), Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Program), and Columbia Law School (Center for the Study of Law and Culture).
Earlier in my career, I taught law in Pakistan while a recipient of a fellowship from the U.S. Fulbright Foundation and later served as the first openly queer Dean and Professor of the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. I am also the recent co-recipient of a Law and Society Association (LSA) Global Collaboration Grant and used this substantial grant to convene a Lahore-based workshop in late 2023 facilitating connections between global LSA networks and local communities of sociolegal researchers on South Asia.
My substantial publication record includes the monograph A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India (University of Washington Press, Global South Asia series, 2020) and serving as coeditor of Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond (Anthem Press, 2022). I am also the coeditor of a 2025 special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke University Press) on “Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia: Moving with, against, and beyond the State.”
I am available for short and long-term consultancies for organizations working in the areas of law and technology and am interested too in senior roles within the technology and human rights sectors. As a lifelong educator, I also have interest in research and teaching roles within universities.
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BA, Harvard University
JD, University of Chicago Law School
PhD, University of Melbourne Law School