Anam is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the SCRIPTS project “Race and Multilateralism:   The Anatomy of a Complex Institution”. She has previously studied Law and History (LLB) at the University of Edinburgh. She also received a Masters in International Law (LLM) from the University of Edinburgh. She has been enrolled as an advocate of the Pakistan Bar Council since 2016. Anam completed her doctoral studies at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS), Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include TWAIL (third world approaches to international law); postcolonial and decolonial thought; history and theory of international order; and the global governance of human mobility.  

Curriculum Vitae

2010 – 2011

University of Edinburgh, LLM International Law

2006 – 2010

University of Edinburgh, LLB Law and History

Scientific Activities and Internships

2014 – 2016

Junior Associate, Abrar Hasan & Co, Karachi, Pakistan

2013

Social Policy Intern, Citizens Advice Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stipends and Awards

Since 09/2016

Fritz Thyssen Foundation, PhD Scholarship

Research Interests

Critical Approaches to International Law

TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law)

Migration and Mobility

Human Rights

Land and Environment

Interdisciplinary research methods

A. Soomro, ‘People, Paper and Power:  The Birth of the Passport in International Law’, (forthcoming)

A. Soomro, Speaking of Silences:  A Genealogy of Freedom of Movement in International Law, (PhD Dissertation 2022, Freie Universität Berlin)

 A. Soomro, "Climate Change, Migration and Environmental Justice" in U. Tandon, (ed.) Climate Change: Law, Policy and Governance, (Delhi, 2015)

A. Soomro & S. Rajani "Karachi: A Geography of Exclusion 1947-1968" in Rajani, S & Malkani, Z (eds) Exhausted Geographies, (Karachi, 2015)