Raza Saeed

Associate Professor

Human Rights; Socio-Legal Studies; Legal Theory; International Law; Governance; Law in Post-colonial & Southern Jurisdictions

School of Law
S2.28, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 761 50066

Scholarship

I have extensive experience of working as a researcher and project manager in the fields of Human Rights and Law & Development. My current research interests lie in the areas of human rights, socio-legal studies and legal theory, particularly in the context of post-colonial and southern jurisdictions.

Ongoing Research Projects

‘Theorising colonialism's injustice’
'The Privatisation of Development'
Interdisciplinary archival research study on ‘Sovereignty and the Birth of International Law: The Trial of Warren Hastings’

Recent Reports and Funded Research Studies

Report on New Pathways for National Human Rights Institutions – project funded by UKRI GCRF (July 2019)
Capacity Building for the National Commission for Human Rights, Govt. of Pakistan at the University of Warwick - project funded by UKRI GCRF (March 2019)

Recent Conference Papers and Presentations

Fault lines in the categorisation of Failed and Fragile States (International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, December 2019)
Teaching Law and Development from the Global South (LDRN Conference, Berlin, Sept 2019)
Bordered Development and the return of the Nation-State (Law & Development Workshop, University of Cardiff, June 2019)
The ubiquity of State Fragility and the present absence of Colonialism (Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, April 2019)
Law, Gender and Rights in British India: A case study of DMMA 1939 (Private Law Conference, University of Oxford, June 2018)
The wrong of colonialism (SLSA Conference, University of Bristol, April 2018)
Law, Gender Rights and Negotiated Coloniality in the Indian Sub-Continent (Socio-Legal Studies Association - SLSA Conference, Newcastle University, April 2017)
Failed States and Sovereignty (Harvard Law School, Institute for Global Law & Policy Workshop, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, July 2016)

Bio

Dr Raza Saeed is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Cardiff School of Law and Politics and a Visiting Scholar at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Raza' research interests span across human rights, international law, development and state formation, particularly in the context of developing and postcolonial countries. He has extensive experience of working with international organisations, public sector bodies and academic institutions as a project manager and researcher in the fields of international development, human rights and education. At Warwick Law School, he currently convenes and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Human Rights Law, International Development and Legal Research. He has also convened and taught courses on Research Methods and Governance & Democratisation.

2014 - Doctorate of Philosophy in Law

2008 - LLM International Development Law and Human Rights

2007 - LLB (Hons.)

2004 - BSc (Hons.) in Social Sciences

Publications

Saeed, Raza, 2020. The ubiquity of state fragility : fault lines in the categorisation and conceptualisation of failed and fragile states. Social & Legal Studies, 29 (6), pp. 767-789
Saeed, Raza, 2019. Law and coloniality of empire : colonial encounter and normative orderings in the Indian sub-continent. Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 19 (1), pp. 103-133
Saeed, Raza, 2017. Governance, normativity and legitimacy in the post-political context. KILAW Journal, 2017 (2), pp. 237-270
Saeed, Raza, 2013. Metamorphosis of the ideals and the actuals : blasphemy laws in Pakistan and the transplantation of justice in British India. Polemos: journal of law, literature and culture, 7 (2), pp. 235-248
Saeed, Raza, 2009. Conceptualising success and failure for social movements. Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD), 2009 (2)

Saeed, Raza, 2023. The evolution of development and the South Asian experience. Buchanan, Ruth; Eslava, Luis; Pahuja, Sundhya (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development, Oxford, Oxford University Press
'Saeed, Raza, 2022. 'The Post-Hobbesian state, sovereignty and development. Adelman, Sam; Paliwala, Abdul (eds.), Beyond Law and Development: Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Saeed, Raza, 2019. Haqq. de Sousa Santos, Boaventura; Menezes, Maria Paula; Bicas, Mara; de Noronha, Susana; Ramírez, René (eds.), Dicionário Alice, Coimbra, Portugal, Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais

Saeed, Raza, 2019. Teaching law and development from the global south. Law & Development Research Network Annual Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 25-27 Sep 2019

Teaching Projects

Highlighted

Warwick GCRF-NCHR grant project

This project emerged from Raza's research and teaching in human rights with a particular focus on developing countries. The project is aimed at building the capacity of National Commission for Human Rights Pakistan in the areas of international human rights law, treaty obligations and rights-based investigation and reporting. With NCHR-P placed as the country’s national human rights monitoring organisation, the dialogues and capacity building has the potential to have an impact on ground.

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