Raza Nazar is a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Candidate at Trinity College, University of Oxford, with interests in constitutional law, jurisprudence and political theory. He is the 3 Verulam Buildings Scholar for 2023-2024 and an Oxford Pakistan Programme Scholar. Raza graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) with a Double First in Law in 2018. While at LSE, in 2016, Raza founded a development forum, the LSE Future of Pakistan Conference, which provides a discursive platform for ministers, judges, scholars and students on an annual basis.
Raza has authored various articles, including an OUCLJ paper on the Pakistani Supreme Court case, Jurists Foundation v Federal Government, on the tenure extension of the Chief of Army Staff. Raza has also been interviewed by BBC World News during landmark UK Supreme Court hearings, including the case of prorogation, Cherry/Miller v The Prime Minister. Between 2019 and 2021, Raza trained with Slaughter and May. He subsequently worked as an international trade lawyer at Akin, the second-largest lobbying firm in the United States.
