معرفی
Sonia Qadir is a Scientia PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, and Sessional Tutor at UNSW Law & Justice. She holds a BA-LLB from LUMS (Lahore, Pakistan) and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from The New School (New York City). Her research focuses on Pakistan's Legal Security regime through an ethnographic lens, intersecting law, politics, and critical social theory. She is a Fulbright Scholar and Australia Awards Fellow.
**Research Interests**: Criminal Law, National Security laws, Legal Anthropology, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Critical Legal Theory, and South Asian Studies. Her work critically examines colonial legacies in legal frameworks and explores decolonial futures.
**Professional Roles**: Previously worked as a human rights attorney, legal consultant at Punjab Commission on the Status of Women, and Program Manager at Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency. At UNSW, she lectures in Politics and Governance and co-organizes the Critical Theory Reading Group.
**Awards**: Fulbright Masters Scholar (2013-2015), Australia Awards Fellow (2017-2018).
**Engagement**: Editor for the South Asian studies blog 'Chapati Mystery', postgraduate representative for the South Asian Studies Association of Australia, and advocate for feminist politics and epistemic decolonization.
