Shahab Saqib

Dr Shahab Saqib is an Assistant Professor and Attorney in Law with research expertise in Anti-Discrimination Law, International Human Rights Law, Critical Legal Theory, Islamic Law, Immigration Law, and the laws of Pakistan. He has previously worked as a lecturer in law at the University of Leicester, a teaching fellow at SOAS University of London, and a teaching consultant at Oxford Summer Courses. He has also been a visiting research fellow at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the Global Scholars Academy at Harvard Law School 2024. He practises law in the Higher Courts of Lahore, specialising in commercial, Islamic, and human rights disputes. Based on his academic and legal expertise, he has given expert consultation to different international bodies like the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) on a ‘joint general recommendation/comment on public policies for addressing xenophobia and its impact on human rights’. He is also leading a micro-credential project for University of London external degree programmes

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A Decolonial Jurisprudence in Making – the Right of a Woman to Dissolve a Marriage in Pakistan

A Decolonial Jurisprudence in Making – the Right of a Woman to Dissolve a Marriage in Pakistan

Recently, the Supreme Court of Pakistan handed down a judgment, titled Dr. Seema Hanif Khan v.Waqas Khan and others, that may prove more significant than its immediate legal consequences suggest. Justice Ayesha Malik dissolved the ...
Blasphemy, Human Rights, the Intervention of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Mansha Masih Case

Blasphemy, Human Rights, the Intervention of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Mansha Masih Case

Image Description: A photograph of an open Bible with focus on a verse from the Gospel of John. A Christian Cross Necklace is placed on the page. Pakistan has a long and contentious history of dealing with cases of Blasphemy. From ...
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