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Arbaz Muzaffer

Law and Legal Studies, University of Birmingham

Thesis title:

A TWAIL and post-colonial analysis of the possibilities for self-determination in Kashmir

Research Area

  • International Law
  • Law and Legal Studies

Publications

Review

Asian Journal of International Law, Volume 15.1 January 2025: Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia by Priyasha Saksena Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. (forthcoming)

Book Chapters

Decolonization and Minority Rights: Shaping India and Pakistan's Subaltern Struggle in the Post-Colonial Context in Routledge History of the International Protection of Minorities, 1919-2001, edited by Carole Fink, Anna-Mária Bíró, Jennifer Jackson-Preece and Corinne Lennox. Routledge (Taylor & Francis). (forthcoming)

Insurgency: India's Response to it and Kashmir in Anti-Terrorism and National Security Laws - Legal Issues and Challenges. Shreeram Law House, edited by Dr. Ajaymeet Singh (2020):135 - 148).

The Human Right to Live and its Implementation: A Comparative Analysis in "Fundamentals of Comparative Public Law" edited by Dr. Ajaymeet Singh, Shreeram Law House (2020):79 - 90).

Constitution and Constitutionalism: Concept, Distinction and Features in "Fundamentals of Comparative Public Law" edited by Dr. Ajaymeet Singh, Shreeram Law House (2020):55 - 65).


Conferences

6th Strathclyde Postgraduate Law Conference Law in Motion: Unravelling the Impact of Contemporary Legal Trends in Research, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. (June 2024)

Evaluating Demographic Engineering and Forced Integration within International Law: Kashmir and Palestine's Parallel Narratives

AsianSIL Intersessional Conference 2024 "Asia And International Law: Historical Legacy and Progressive Development" Co-Organised & Hosted By Narxoz University And KIMEP University. (May 2024)

Minority Rights in the Postcolonial Struggle of India and Pakistan's Subaltern Population – A Decolonial Perspective

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Portsmouth, UK. (March 2024)

Decolonising the Right to Self-determination: An Inquiry into the Failure of Internal Self-determination in Kashmir. 

M4C Research Festival, Austin Court, Birmingham, UK. (October 2023)

Research Relay and Poster Presentation

Demystifying Kashmir's Decolonisation under International Law

War and Peace in International Law – 2nd Edition - The Fate of Human Rights. University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary. (September 2023)

Unpacking Kashmir's Conflict with International Law: An Exigency to Decolonise the Right to Self-Determination. 

The 9th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, Indonesia. (August 2023)

Rethinking Kashmir's Claim to Self-determination under International Law: Demystifying Kashmir's Colonial History.

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK. (April 2023)

Transitional Justice in Non-transitions: The Case of Kashmir's Protracted Colonial Conflict.

International Seminar on Protection of Child Rights and Law Relating to Women Empowerment in India, The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. (January 2020)

Women of Conflict - Human Rights and Kashmir

National Seminar on Child Rights: Socio-Economic and Cultural Dimensions, University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh. (February 2020)

Street Children in India: A Vexatious Reality.

Co-presenter: Afghan Children in India: Status & Their Rights, and Child Labour: A Slaughter of Laughter

National Seminar on Law, Medicine & Ethics, Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Kashmir. (October 2017)

Participant

International Seminar on Gender Justice – A Way Forward, Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Central University of Kashmir. (October 2013)

Rapporteur


Public Engagement & Impact

HEFI Horizon Award by University of Birmingham | Higher Education Futures Institutes (October 2021) 

Sep 2024: Mentor - Midlands4Cities Undergraduate Summer School, AHRC, College Court, University of Leicester, Leicester

Sep 2023: Mentor - Midlands4Cities Undergraduate Summer School, AHRC, Birmingham City University, Birmingham

Certificate of volunteering and Participation in  Skill Development Workshop on the J&K Right to Information Act, 2009. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar. (August 2017)

Certificate of excellence in Three Day Breakthrough Facilitation Workshop. MANFORD, Srinagar. (April 2015)

Other Research Interests

International Law

TWAIL – Third World Approaches to International Law

Human Rights 


Memberships


Advocate License Number: JK520/2018 (Jammu and Kashmir State Bar Council)

Member of Socio-Legal Studies Association

Member of Asian Society of International Law


Workshops

Summer Course in Public International Law (08-25 July, 2024)

The Hague Academy of International Law, Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, The Netherlands

Royal Literary Fund Third Year Residential Writing Retreat (18 – 23 February, 2024)

Shepherds Dene Retreat House, Riding Mill, Northumberland. Organiser: Midlands4Cities, Arts and Humanities Research Council

The British School at Rome workshop (12-19 March, 2023)

British School at Rome, via Antonio Gramsci 61, 00197 Roma

Royal Literary Fund Second Year Hybrid Stretch Immersive (17-21 October, 2022)

Orchard Hotel, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus, Nottingham NG7 2RJ