Research Interests

Muslim Constitutionalism, Islamic law, Public International law, International human rights law, Constitutional and Administrative law, Counter-Terrorism laws

Additional Professional Information

  • FRSA, FAcSS.
  • Advocate High Court, Pakistan, member Punjab Bar Council.
  • Member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn London; associate member of Garden Court North Chambers, Manchester. 
  • UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Publications

Books and Articles

‘Revisiting the Jihad Ideology in Islamic International Law and its Appropriation by Non-State Actors’ Human Rights Quarterly 2022, 417–440. 

The Plight of Minority Rights in Pakistan’ in S. Juss (ed.) Pakistan and Human Rights (Lexington Books) 2021 (Co-authored), pp. 35–58

‘Islam, Terrorism and International Law’ in B. Saul (ed.) Research Handbook on Terrorism (Edward Elgar) 2020, pp. 168–179

The Rule of Law, Freedom of Expression and Islamic Law (Co-authored)
(Hart Publishing) 2018.