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Shaheen Sardar Ali

Shaheen Sardar Ali is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK and Professor II University of Oslo, Norway. She was formerly Professor of Law at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Her teaching and research experience is mostly in international law of human rights, women's human rights, children's rights, Islamic law and jurisprudence, alternative dispute resolution and gender and the law. She has been consultant to a range of national and international organisations and UN agencies. Professor Ali has served as Minister for Health, Population Welfare and Women Development in the Government of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and as Chair of Pakistan’s first National Commission on the Status of Women. She served on the Prime Minister's Consultative Committee for Women (Pakistan), and the Senate National Commission of Enquiry on the Status of Women (Pakistan). Professor Ali has published extensively in a number of areas including human rights, Islamic law, international law, and gender studies.