Qudsia Mirza
Senior Lecturer
Department of Law & Criminology , Royal Docks School of Business and Law
Qudsia Mirza is a Senior Lecturer in Law and qualified as a solicitor before entering academic life. She has extensive teaching and research experience both in the UK and in the US. She has held positions at Birkbeck, University of London, and in the US, at Albany Law School, New York, where she was the Kate Stoneman Professor of Law and Democracy, and at the University of Cincinnati, where she was Visiting Professor of Law.
Areas Of Interest
- Islamic Law
- Islamic Law and Gender
- Islamic Feminism
- Islamic Law and Human Rights
- Legal Pluralism
OVERVIEW
Qudsia has held a number of research positions which include the Francis Lewis Scholar in Residence at Washington and Lee University, Visiting Scholar at the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California Berkeley, Visiting fellow in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, and Visiting Fellow at Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain.
After working in the healthcare industry in the US and gaining valuable industry experience, Qudsia has recently returned to full-time academic life in the UK.
Qudsia has been appointed to executive and advisory positions for several organisations which range from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in the UK, to the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute, University of North Texas in the US. She has been a member of the governance committee of the International Law and Society Association and held editorial board positions at Social and Legal Studies and the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. She sits on the Policy Council, and the Executive Committee, of Liberty, the UK's leading human rights organisation.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Qudsia's research and publications are in the area of Islamic Law. Her focus is on two main areas: feminist/reformist perspectives of Islamic Law; and the development of Islamic legal cultures by diasporic Muslim communities and their relationship with official legal systems.
Her current research projects are:
Law, Religion and Social Progress in the Age of COVID-19 (Co-director with Susanne Scholz, Southern Methodist University, USA), Islamic Feminism, Human Rights and Women's Activism in Pakistan.
She is currently editing a collection of essays on Islam, Feminism and Legal Cultures.
Qudsia has been the recipient of two British Academy Research Grants.
Current PhD Supervision
- Nafisa Kiani: An analysis of British Muslim women’s intersectional experiences in acquiring political office including the process of selection, election and operation of the work environment.
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