Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018
Ph.D in Constitutional and Human Rights Law, King’s College London, UK
Supervisors: Professor Maleiha Malik and Professor Robert Wintemute
2016
Associateship of King’s College London
2011
LL.M. Masters of Law, University of Cambridge
2010
LL.B. Bachelor of Laws, King’s College London
Teaching Experience
09/2017 – on going
Stipendiary Lecturer in Public Law, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Constitutional Law
Administrative Law (Pembroke, Merton, Somerville and Regent’s Park until 2019)
2021
Summer Semester (April – June)
Visiting Lecturer at the Law School of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Developed and delivered the course: the Law and Regulation of Organ Donation and Transplantation in the UK and Germany
09/2019 – 03/2020
Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London
Anti-Discrimination Law
01/2019 – 03/2020
Out-tutor Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
International Human Rights Law (Hilary term)
09/2018 – 12/2018
Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London
Public Law
Anti-Discrimination Law
01/2017 – 03/2017
Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London
Anti-Discrimination Law
10/2016 – 07/2017
Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS
Public Law (tutorials, clinics and lectures on the Human Rights Act 1998 in term II)
Introduction to Law and Legal Process
09/2013 – 06/2015
Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London
Public Law
10/2012 – 07/2015
Teaching Fellow, SOAS
Public Law
Legal Systems of Africa and Asia
Guest Teaching Activities
2023
Visiting Guest Lecturer, Comparitive Constitutional Law, University of South Carolina and hosted by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London
06/2019
Lecture on “European Anti-discrimination Law: Religious Discrimination”
Centre of European Law, King’s College London, UK
05/2019 – 06/2019
The Oxford Study Abroad Programme, The Washington International Studies Council
Jurisprudence
02/2018
Guest Lecturer, SOAS
Law and Multi-culturalism
Professional Activities
11/2017 – 06/2020
Co-editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, University of Oxford
10/2015 – 02/2016
Guest Fellow, Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
02/2015 – 06/2015
Housing Law Case-Worker Volunteer, South West London Law Centre, London, UK
08/2014 – 09/2014
Summer Placement at Knorr Bremse AG, Munich, Germany
11/2012 - 09/2013
Legal Research Intern, Constitutional and Legal Department, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK
Publications
Monograph on Religious Accommodation under contract with Hart Publishing (forthcoming in 2021).
Raza, Farrah. 2018. Accommodating religious slaughter in the UK and Germany: competing interests in carving out legal exemptions? Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 191. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Blogs
Raza, Farrah, ‘Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons (OxHRH Blog, 17 December 2017) < Farrah Raza, “Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons” (OxHRH Blog, 2019) http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/organ-donation:-new-law,-new-horizons [Date of Access].
Raza, Farrah, ‘The Continuity of the Headscarf Controversy: From Politics to Fashion,’ (OxHRH Blog, 17 December 2017) http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-continuity-of-the-headscarf-controversy-from-politics-to-fashion [Date of Access]
Presentation at Conferences and Workshops (selected)
2023
Presenter: ‘Dignity and Religion’ at the Sixth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, St. Andrew’s, Scotland
2023
Presenter online: ‘Religion and Culture in Transplantation’, The international Paediatric Transplantation Association, Texas, USA.
2022
Organiser, host and presenter: ‘Translating Legal Obligations in Practice in Organ Donation & Transplantation’, Pembroke College, Oxford
2022
Presenter: Twenty-Ninth Annual International Law and Religion Symposuim on ‘Religion’s Role in Peacebuilding’, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
2020
Presentation: “An Introduction to the Law on Organ Donation in the UK”, “Organ Donation and Faith”, The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK (17 February 2020).
2016
Paper: “Public Reason and Religion”, “Department of Law & Anthropology, Retreat”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany (12 January 2016).
2015
Discussant: “Anti-discrimination Law in the UK and Italy”, The Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome, Italy (14 May 2015).
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
2020
Organiser, “Organ Donation and Faith”, The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK (17 February 2020).
2018
Conference Assistant to Professor Justin Jones, “Re-formulating matrimony and post-matrimony in Islamic law: new questions and responses among Muslims in Europe”, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK (25-26 June 2018).
Grants/Scholarships
09/2020
Minerva Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
06/2015
Travel Grant for the Summer School on Secularism by Professor Talal Asad, The New School, New York, US
09/2013 – 08/2016
Fully funded Ph.D Scholar at the Centre of European Law, King’s College London, UK
Vocational Training
2016
Professional Development in Higher Education, SOAS, UK
2011 – 2012
BPTC, City Law School, UK
Membership in Professional Associations
Gray’s Inn, England
Associate of the Higher Education Academy, UK
Languages
English: Native
Urdu: Basic Speaking
Punjabi: Basic Speaking