Anoshay Fazal – Advisory Member

Ms. Anoshay Fazal is associated with Lahore Education and Research Network. She holds an LL.B (Hons) degree and LL.M from University of London. She does freelance research work mainly on the environment, refugees and human rights. Her research experience with professors from LUMS spans over 5 years.

Anoshay holds LLB (Hons) & LLM (with Merit) from the University of London with a specialization in Law and Development and has over twelve years of experience in academic and policy research focusing on constitutionalism and legal history, international human rights law, environmental justice, neoliberalism, and other thematic areas within the South Asian region.

She has recently provided research support for a book manuscript focusing on ethnic federalism, civil-military relations and neoliberalism and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan. Her recent publication focuses on the notions of citizenship laws, statelessness, and the plight of Afghan refugees, published in ‘Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship’ (Manchester University Press, 2021).

She has also co-authored the study on “Fair Representation in Justice Sector” and assisted with implementing trainings to over a 100 female law students and lawyers under this project with the Women in Law Initiative Pakistan (with support from the United States Institute of Peace). She has experience in implementing and coordinating projects focusing on Refugee Law, Business and Human Rights, and more recently the rights of the Child in Pakistan with support from the American Bar Association-Rule of Law Initiative and UNHCR Pakistan.

Anoshay also serves as an advisory member with the Lahore Education and Research Network (LEARN). She is currently pursuing her PhD in Law in UK. Her research focuses on citizenship, statelessness and the intersection of these notions with international human rights law.

International Publication
Fazal, Anoshay. “A regional politics of foreignness and Pakistan’s Afghan refugees.” In Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship, pp. 49-60. Manchester University Press, 2021.

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