Iqra Saleem Khan
Adjunct Professor of Law
Education
Harvard Law School, LLM, 2021
Harvard Law School, SJD (in progress)
Bio
Iqra Saleem Khan is an adjunct professor at Northeastern Law and an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. She previously taught at The Institute of Legal Studies in Lahore, Pakistan. Her dissertation explores the role of Family Law Exceptionalism (FLE) in the postcolonial nation-building projects of Bangladesh and Pakistan, and the rise of Blasphemy Law in the latter as a counter-exceptional domain of national identity. Her earlier publications have explored pressing issues in Pakistani family law, including the nature of marital consent, and the rights of existing and subsequent cowives in polygamous marriages.
In Pakistan, she taught University of London International Programmes courses on Islamic Law, jurisprudence and legal theory, and property law. More broadly, her research interests are in the areas of gender and the law, legal theory and Islamic law. In addition to academia, she has worked with the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in furtherance of their mandate through research and advocacy. She graduated with first class honors from the University of London in 2016 and obtained her LLM from Harvard Law School in 2021.
