Education

• BCL, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• BA, LLB (Hons), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India
  

Profile

Faiza Rahman’s teaching and research interests include constitutional law and theory, administrative and regulatory laws, and media and technology law and policy.

Her doctoral dissertation at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, examines the impact of security claims on the Indian constitutional framework, with a specific focus on emergency powers, fundamental rights and federalism.  

Prior to joining NLSIU, Faiza served as a teaching fellow in the free speech and media law course at Melbourne Law School. In India, she has worked for over six years across research, public policy and practice. She was a research fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, where she worked on areas of technology law and regulatory governance. She has also worked as a research fellow with the public law and judicial reforms verticals at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi. Before venturing into research and academia, Faiza worked as an associate in the capital markets practice at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, Mumbai. 

Faiza was awarded a full scholarship by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies to pursue the BCL at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.